Thank goodness, the FDA could start regulating healthcare IT systems

A few years ago I wrote that the FDA should be paying closer attention to healthcare IT systems and consider regulating those systems the same as any other medical devices. After all, some healthcare IT systems can kill just as easily as medical devices.
I hate quoting myself, but here’s what I wrote back in 2005:
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Tips for HIT vendors speaking to analysts at HIMSS

John Moore over at Chilmark Research is one smart cookie; in addition to being a world expert on PHRs , he’s a great analyst on general healthcare IT (HIT) topics, too.
With HIMSS coming up next and analysts like myself and John being requested to review firms and their products, John has done a great [...]

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Physician Office Usage of Electronic Healthcare Records Software

SK&A recently surveyed 180,000 medical sites as to their current usage of EHR. That’s one of the largest national surveys I’ve seen — the numbers are about what we expect but it’s great to see that someone actually spent the time doing real research instead of just quoting other smaller surveys. Seems like the SK&A [...]

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Guest Article: Human Centering in Healthcare IT

I’ve been spending a lot of time on human-computer interactions in healthcare technology these days (both hardware and software). It’s a very hard problem to solve, especially with complex systems like EMRs. To help talk more about how to better design patient-centric healthcare technology, I’ve reached out to Steven Deal,  Vice President and systems engineer [...]

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Meet the bloggers (and other New Media personalities) at HIMSS

I’m hoping to see many of my friends at HIMSS this year and I’m working with great folks like John Lynn to setup several unofficial meetups at HIMSS for those of us reading or writing blogs or other New Media tech like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Our previous HIMSS meetups have been fun and [...]

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Report: How to get your hands on $900 Million in Federal Health IT and $70 Billion in Health Tech

Here’s a new report you’ll like if you’re interested in getting your contractor hands on federal healthcare tech dollars (including health IT). Here’s the introduction from the report:

The U.S. Federal government will spend more than $385 billion on healthcare – not including Medicare spending – in GFY2010. Nearly $70 billion of that will go to [...]

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Event: Find out how to tap the billions of dollars being spent by the government on healthcare technology

If you’re in the DC area, you might be interested in attending FedSources InFocus Event on Healthcare Technology. FedSources is a company that provides market intelligence around government contracting and opportunities. I’ll probably be attending so if you’re planning on attending let me know and we can catch up at the event.
The event is being [...]

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$99 Wii Balance Board Outperforms $17,885 Medical Device

I love these kinds of stories. Last week Gizmodo posted In Early Tests, $99 Wii Balance Board Outperforms $17,885 Medical Rig which was initially reported in New Scientist’s Wii board helps physios strike a balance after strokes. Basically, the story revolves around a paper published by Ross Clark in which Clark’s team compared a $99 [...]

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Let there be light: HHS publishes interim final rules on Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for EMRs

Scrambling to meet the end of year deadline set forth in the ARRA HITECH statute, HHS hits the mark with its release of the interim final 45 CFR Part 170, Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology. I will have more to say about the contents over the [...]

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Beware EMR bullies quoting federal stimulus rules

I’ve been hearing a lot of stories these days about EMR companies telling potential physician customers that they need to buy a sophisticated or “full blown” EMR right now in order to get any stimulus funds. Some of my readers have asked whether this is true or not so let me set the record straight.
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