Digital Government
VHA to consolidate vets’ health data
The initiative requires the agency to standardize data that has been entered in text form in the past, often with misspellings and nonstandard abbreviations.
Digital Government
California, Blue Cross to implement telemedicine
About 90,000 members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System who live in rural areas will be able to receive medical advice via a network.
Digital Government
Volunteer GIS group aids medical mission
Fifty mapping experts will donate time and equipment to gather data that can help improve services to the poor in developing countries.
Digital Government
USAID to award AIDS drug supply chain contract
The U.S. Agency for International Development will soon award a multimillion-dollar contract to develop a global supply chain management system for AIDS drugs.
Digital Government
Fewer than half of California's counties have EHR projects
Only 26 of the state's 58 counties are working to exchange electronic health records across disparate information systems.
People
Drug data for Katrina evacuees now online
Prescription medicine data for evacuees fleeing Hurricane Katrina’s devastation is now available on a single Web site.
Digital Government
VistA-Office is released -- sort of
CMS makes open-source-based e-records software available for evaluation as part of limited release.
People
Military Health System appoints CIO
Retired Army colonel spent 26 years in Army Medical Service Corps.
People
Gingrich: 'Paper kills,' electronic medical records save lives
Katrina has shown beyond doubt the necessity of moving to electronic records, policy figures argue.
Digital Government
Marchibroda: E-health work keeps pace
The recent Health IT Summit showed that progress is happening on many fronts.
People
Lockheed Martin gets Social Security purchase agreement
SSA has awarded a five-year blanket purchase agreement worth as much as $124 million for information technology services, including medical document scanning.
People
Brailer: Health IT vision takes shape
After responding to the crisis following Hurricane Katrina, the national health IT coordinator sees more opportunity to drive technology use.
Digital Government
Rand pegs health IT savings at $81B a year
Think tank report encourages the federal government to do more to accelerate the adoption of such technology.
Digital Government
Survey: EHR a tough sell
Small and midsize practices are especially skeptical about the value of electronic health record systems.
Digital Government
Leavitt names advisory board members
The commissioners represent various segments of the health care industry, those who pay for care and consumers.
People
Physicians' e-mails document post-Katrina horrors
Providing care in hurricane-battered areas was compounded by shortfalls in the National Disaster Medical System.
People
HHS gathers health data for Katrina evacuees
By next week, HHS officials hope to make some elements of patients' medical records available to doctors treating people from the Gulf Coast.
Digital Government
Master index pitched as patient ID alternative
An index approach, along with probabilistic matching, would ensure that the index links to the correct set of records for each patient.
Digital Government
Open health records software comes of age
A nonprofit group hopes to spur even broader adoption of EHR software developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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