Morning Headlines 7/27/15
Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices
Cybersecurity experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology publish a draft guide on securing mobile devices for use in the health care industry.
Another Big Earnings Beat for Athenahealth, Inc.
Athena publishes Q2 results: revenue climbed 21 percent to $224.7 million, EPS $0.32 vs. $0.32, missing revenue projections but beating earnings estimates. Stock prices, which had jumped five percent earlier in the day on news that Athena signed NewYork-Presbyterian Physician Services Organization, lost two percent of those gains in after hours trading.
The Health IT Safety Center Roadmap: What’s Next?
In a Health Affairs blog, Dean Sittig and Hardeep Singh publish an assessment of ONC’s Health IT Safety Center Roadmap.
Modernizing Medicine to acquire Weston electronic medical records firm
Cloud-based dermatology EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine acquires gMed, a gastroenterology EHR vendor, for an undisclosed sum.
The safety center is of the vendors, by the vendors, and for the vendors. A travesty. Congress should not fund this faux safety programme.