Sun.Apr 22, 2018

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The intensity of EMR warnings: Who do they really help?

KevinMD

Eons ago, there was a television show where a non-human character would yell out, "Warning, warning," when he sensed imminent danger. The series was called Lost in Space where we were entertained by a set of quirky characters on a cheesy set. We loved that stuff. It’s hard to imagine today’s millennials and younger folks being transfixed, as we were, with the deep television dramas of our day.

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AMIA blasts Trump administration’s ‘history of delay’ with Common Rule implementation

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration proposed another delay to updates to the Common Rule, a research regulation with several key health IT provisions, that has been repeatedly postponed since Trump took office. AMIA's Jeff Smith said the administration's history of delaying the rules hangs over it "like an ominous cloud.