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Your local RHIO or HIE should be much more than a check box on your Meaningful Use requirements list, they stand to play an important role in delivering the vision Meaningful Use. Too often RHIOs are discussed as nothing more than repositories of clinical data, but by working with them as a partner they can help organizations and providers address half the Meaningful Use requirements.

The FDA has been receiving a great deal of criticism from the clinical community about a variety of issues, but probably none is as contentious as the ongoing patient safety issues regarding harmful drug-drug interactions and drug-gene interactions, estimated by the Institute of Medicine to cause 250,000 deaths each year in the U.S.
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It’s not just genomic scientists that are dealing with enormous amounts of DNA sequence data – the clinician will soon be next.  However, the explosion in linking disease with genetics, and the realization that the FDA will require gene testing prior to the prescription of potentially hundreds of drugs, will challenge the storage capacity required for [...]

Hi Anthony:  A quick reaction or counter to your prediction. I think the bar will come down, but will it be enough or perhaps stated differently will it provide enough flexibility particularly for the states and variances among providers. Perhaps this is more of a nuance, but I believe CMS understands the challenges of the [...]

Individualizing drug therapy based on pharmacogenomics (PGx) is considered by many academic researchers and clinical experts as the “next significant domain of clinical practice” (see the American College of Clinical Pharmacology’s very informative web-based tutorial, “The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics”, http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html).
Drugs that are currently recommended for PGx testing by the FDA include specific medications that [...]

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NEW YORK, January 19, 2010 — healthsystemCIO.com was launched today with the goal of becoming the premier news and opinion Web site for healthcare CIOs. Through news, interviews and guest blogs, the site will cover timely and relevant topics, including the evolution of meaningful use and EMR certification under HITECH, best practices around physician engagement [...]

William Spooner, FCHIME, SVP & CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, Calif., has been named 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award by CHIME.
Spooner, an active contributor and leader of both the CHIME and HIMSS, served as Chair of the CHIME Board in 2006 and Chair of the CHIME Foundation Board [...]