Digital Government
Diaspora dispatches
Stories of how individual health care workers, hospital IT staff and policy planners responded to Katrina reveal the glaring weaknesses -- and the buried potential -- of the nation's health IT infrastructure.
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Best practices under pressure
As Hurricane Katrina evacuees poured into Tarrant County, Texas, health officials tried to keep to their best practices, only on a much larger scale.
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Mending the safety net
CIOs say public hospital tech gap threatens national health network
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Carolinas HealthCare unplugged
The Carolinas Medical Center is introducing wireless technologies across all of its major campuses in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Garrett: Revolutionizing health care
Massachusetts plans to convert to e-health records in the next five years.
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Wanted: Satellite Internet service
Officials at Mississippi's Biloxi Regional Medical Center felt the loss of crucial transaction-processing functions, such as insurance verification, because of downed circuits.
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Medicaid records speed response
After spending four days tending patients in the New Orleans Superdome, Louisiana's Dr. Roxanne Townsend saw critical health information literally washing away.
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A blanket of SNOMED
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the widespread use of health records is medical terminology.
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Indiana dishes out EHR services
The first electronic health record system, installed in Indiana in 1972, still serves as a model for other health systems.
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Portland VA center pilots personal health portal
Portland is one of nine sites where the VA is demonstrating My HealtheVet to show that it can provide veterans with safe, secure and private electronic health records.
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Dodged the storm but not the crisis
Health care facilities that were not in the direct path of hurricanes Katrina and Rita still felt their ferocious impact.
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Extreme house calls
In spring 2006, U.S. and Canadian officials will test the advanced technologies needed to deliver remote medical assistance.
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The maiden voyage of MED-1
A prototype mobile hospital opened its doors in a Kmart parking lot in Waveland, Miss., to aid Katrina evacuees.
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Marchibroda: Speed the plow
Recent grants from AHRQ will boost 16 health information technology initiatives designed to create financially sustainable models for health IT adoption.
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Katrina points to national EHR system
At the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, the lack of accessible records forced officials to reach out to pharmacies and insurance companies to gather information.
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FDA takes the pain out of Rx info
New rule requires online data for health care providers and consumers
Acquisition
HHS picks four for health net prototypes
Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman will develop test architectures for the proposed National Health Information Network.
People
CHCS II's global launch set
A DOD official will give details about the Composite Health Care System II's deployment at a press briefing Nov. 21.
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