Study: Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis Prone to Error
FALLS CHURCH – Top headlines from Noblis Health Innovation for Wednesday, July 21, compiled daily by Noblis Health Innovation. Click on the underlined item for the actual story:
- North Carolina government adopts analytics: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will implement a data warehouse to collect and analyze health care data on 1.8 million beneficiaries.
- Survey: EHRs number one priority for healthcare IT professionals: A survey by Embarcadero Technologies of health-care information technology professionals reported in Healthcare IT News finds that 74 percent feel they have adequate information on electronic health record certification.
- States lining up for health IT: The huge challenges of implementing a $30 billion program are just beginning to hit the states, reports Governing.com.
- Earliest Steps to Find Breast Cancer Are Prone to Error: Biopsy diagnosis can be surprisingly prone to error in identifying breast cancer, often leading to unnecessary and disfiguring surgery.
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