Archive for May 6th, 2009

Last week the Federal Register (April 29, 2009) contained a Notification of the Establishment of the HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee. I had previously posted about the creation of these committee and recommended suggested members.
More information will be made available via the “new” Health Information Technology website of the Office of the National [...]

Not for the feint of heart. Consider yourself warned.
Taken from a top ten list of gory YouTube surgery videos via Wired Science.
(via Health Bolt)

Information Week is covering a story involving an extortion letter sent last week to the Virginia Department of Health Professions seeking $10M to return more than 8M patient records and 35M prescriptions allegedly stolen from the Virginia Department of Health Professions.
The extortion demand was posted on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website states:

The conventional wisdom is that practicing medicine over the telephone exposes doctors to potentially more malpractice lawsuits.
But, is that really the case?


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