The following are some of the biggest stories circulating in the health IT sphere this past week.
1. Through a new partnership, NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will offer its aeronautics and spaceflight engineering expertise to Cleveland Clinic Innovations' Global Healthcare Innovations Alliance.
2. CMS recently exerted pushback to including UDIs on claims forms, saying it introduces technical obstacles and excessive costs.
3. Cerner is set to partner with Validic to incorporate software into its EHR that enables better access to patient-generated data from clinical and fitness devices and apps.
4. The Indiana State Medical Association is notifying patients after two archive backup hard drives containing group health and life insurance databases were stolen.
5. Valley Community Healthcare in North Hollywood, Calif., notified patients of a potential data breach after a laptop computer attached to an electrocardiogram machine went missing.
6. At an ONC Health IT Policy meeting last Thursday, Epic President Carl Dvorak commented on developing national registries and health exchanges, a comment many have taken to indicate Epic's leaning toward interoperability efforts.
7. To complement its mobile health app HealthKit, Apple introduced software to give health professionals and researchers access to data created by iPhone users.
8. Evansville, Ind.-based St. Mary's Health reported a cyberattack on employees' emails, leading to a breach of approximately 4,400 patients' data.
9. Stanford (Calif.) Health Care partnered with venture capitalist GE Ventures to launch a new digital health company.
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