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InformationWeek Healthcare Columnist Health IT Priorities Put Regulations Before Innovation
By Richard Hoffman
Implementing electronic records and meeting Meaningful Use rules are top of the list in our Health IT Priorities survey.

National Patient ID System: Debate Stoked
Hoping to spark a national conversation on information exchange, health IT advocate petitions to lift ban on HHS national patient identification system.

Obama Brain Mapping Project Tests Big Data Limits
President Obama's just announced Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project might require handling yottabytes of data.

UCSF Heart Disease Study To Use Mobile Apps
Big data trial will follow up to 1 million patients, who will use smartphones to transmit blood pressure and other data several times a day.

Patients Like Online Health Records Access, Study Says
Veterans in study said the ability to view notes, lab results and other documents helped them communicate better with their doctors and led to better health.

NHS Moves Slowly Toward Mobile Health IT
Doctors' demands mean the National Health Service's may soon be forced to allow smartphone and tablet use in clinical care.

NHS Needs Better Vision Of Digital Patients
Is a focus on niche technology rather than a more integrated view of the digital patient holding back the modernization of the U.K.'s socialized health system?

Cancer Researchers Mine Big Data To Individualize Treatment
CancerLinQ prototype from American Society of Clinical Oncology aggregates data from disparate EHRs to find the most effective therapy for a specific patient.

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Research: 2013 Healthcare IT Priorities
Meeting regulatory requirements barely inched out managing digital patient data as the top priority for our 363 healthcare provider IT pros. More than half, 56%, have completed their EMR or EHR deployments, and 74% are using or planning to use a health information exchange. So what's next on the docket? Hopefully, it's catching up to other sectors. After all, when your head's down, it's easy to walk straight into a swamp.
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Many UC projects are stuck in neutral: Only 38% have deployed, up just two points from our 2011 survey, and 31% of these respondents have rolled UC out to less than 10% of their user bases. Here's how to get out of the rut.
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Windows 8 Momentum Sputters
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