Senate Health Committee Wants to Fix the $28B EHR Disaster

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Senate Health Committee Wants to Fix the $28B EHR Disaster

With bipartisan support, the Senate Health Committee announced that there will be a full committee work group to figure out the best ways to improve electronic health records (EHR) according to HITConsultant.com.

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Superhumans to the Rescue: DNA Mutations Worth Billions

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Superhumans to the Rescue: DNA Mutations Worth Billions

Steven Pete can put his hand on a hot stove and not feel a thing and Timothy Dreyer can walk away from a bad car accident without a single broken bone. These “superhumans” are sought-after by drug companies like Genentech and Amgen since only a few people have a congenital insensitivity to pain and only about 100 have sclerosteosis, a condition that produces extremely dense bones.

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SGI to Power ITMI’s Genomic Databases to Better Understand Diseases

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SGI to Power ITMI’s Genomic Databases to Better Understand Diseases

SGI is a global leader in high-performance computer solutions for data analytics and management. Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) selected them to enable researchers to obtain insights from its premier genomic databases. ITMI's genomic database is one of the largest in the world and is the only database of its kind connected directly to a community health system.

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Senate Panel Promotes Delay of Stage 3 Meaningful Use Rules, Physicians Agree

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Senate Panel Promotes Delay of Stage 3 Meaningful Use Rules, Physicians Agree

The Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee is asking to delay Stage 3 meaningful use rules. The Committee’s chairman, Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) have been meeting regularly to advocate their policy suggestions and draft regulations to be implemented by HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell.

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