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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

Issuing these guideline documents is a further step towards creating some predictability for folks in the industry who may shy away from including certain functionality in products for fear of being subject to unknown sorts of regulatory review by the FDA. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries. This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

Issuing these guideline documents is a further step towards creating some predictability for folks in the industry who may shy away from including certain functionality in products for fear of being subject to unknown sorts of regulatory review by the FDA. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

Issuing these guideline documents is a further step towards creating some predictability for folks in the industry who may shy away from including certain functionality in products for fear of being subject to unknown sorts of regulatory review by the FDA. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.