Healthcare IT IRL: photos reduce errors, online-safety issues mount

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up. And it may be difficult sometimes to see where the work we and our peers do is applied to help caregivers and patients.

That’s why we’ve hand-selected these recent articles our team agrees are worth a quick read affecting the world of healthcare interoperability.

• Patient photos significantly reduce order errors
• HHS: More than 2 million patients affected by breaches reported in October
• Trump fires cybersecurity chief
• Patient ID Now disappointed in spending bill
• Study: patients distracted during telehealth visits

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