People
VA gives CIO power over budget
VA officials promise lawmakers they will centralize the agency's billion-dollar information technology budget in the CIO's office to control spending.
People
VA health IT gets new chief
Craig Luigart named to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health IT programs and services.
Digital Government
Report: Build antifraud measures into health IT
A national network for exchanging digital health info can reduce health care fraud, a panel of experts reported yesterday.
Digital Government
Health directors say HHS flu cuts are for the birds
But funding shortage to deal with avian flu could be fixed through Defense appropriations amendment.
Digital Government
Technology CEO Council pushes e-health road map
The policy advocate group, made up of the heads of some of the biggest information technology companies, has inserted itself into the debate over a national health information network.
Digital Government
Fear and feathers
Health experts hope technology can help them detect and contain outbreaks of avian flu.
Digital Government
CDC funds informatics for public health
Two grants totaling $8.3 million will support research projects to increase the use of information technology.
Digital Government
Marchibroda: A vote for financial incentives, standards adoption
Columnist Janet Marchibroda says that a recent House Government Reform Committee hearing provided an overview of the state of health technology and the development of a national health IT strategy.
Digital Government
Are consumers missing from the health IT picture?
One critic describes the national drive as an effort to sell consumers on the benefits of health IT but not an effort to engage them in its development.
Digital Government
HHS plans annual health IT report card
George Washington University and others will assess the progress the nation is making toward adopting health information technology.
Digital Government
Feds award $22M in grants for e-health
The funding, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is earmarked for health information exchange projects nationwide.
Digital Government
Study: Public support for e-health has strings attached
Americans are still concerned about privacy and control of information, according to a new report by the Markle Foundation.
People
CDC shuffles IT responsibilities
New information management office to oversee enterprise business systems
People
HHS taps Navy's Wah for health IT post
Wah, associate CIO of the Military Health System, is one of five interim managers.
Digital Government
HHS ‘community’ gets to work
Personal health records, telemonitoring and biosurveillance top the agenda of the American Health Information Community.
Acquisition
HHS picks three for health IT effort
Nonprofit organizations will tackle privacy, security and interoperability problems associated with the use of technology.
Digital Government
Nevada docs get nearly free e-prescribing software
The deal among a county medical society, the state's largest health plan and a medical records software company aims to provide the software to all the doctors in the state.
Digital Government
New rules will ease health IT adoption
One rule sets forth initial standards for e-prescribing and another makes it easier for hospitals to donate equipment to cash-strapped physicians.
Digital Government
San Diego County launches regional health net
Program could improve care for uninsured patients showing up in emergency rooms.
People
Bill would give feds e-health records
A second forthcoming bill would set into law the government's national health IT coordinator and set milestones for federal agencies’ work to advance health IT.
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