Digital Government
Latitudes and longitudes
The U.S. health care community is not alone in its struggles with privacy, standards and other challenges to the health information technology agenda
Digital Government
Health nets grow up fast
When Congress returns from its August recess, it will tackle the questions raised by legislation aimed to improve the American health care system through information technology.
Digital Government
The education of Capitol Hill
Members of congress are getting a crash course on the economics and politics of health IT.
Digital Government
The calculus of change
The U.S. health care bill could be cut significantly through wider use of health IT systems. What will it take to get doctors to use the technology?
Digital Government
Vendors scramble for seats at the table
Industry players emerge in the high-stakes effort to shape a national health IT policy and speed the implementation of clinical information systems.
Digital Government
Diabetes monitoring reaches new levels
In the United States and abroad, health care professionals have started to wield information technology to identify, treat and manage patients with diabetes.
Digital Government
Mixing, matching and missing
The state of health IT standards resembles nothing more than a basket of mismatched socks
Digital Government
U.K. completes major engineering work for health IT system
National Health Service hopes to fully deploy medical imaging system within two years.
Digital Government
Health IT to help with care for Katrina victims
Agencies are trying to recover parts of patient medical records from electronic systems to replace paper records lost in the storm.
Digital Government
Free EHR software is on hold
The release of free electronic health record software from the Department of Health and Human Services has been delayed indefinitely.
Digital Government
Gov. Warner: IT needed to cut Medicaid costs
The federal government needs to invest significantly more in health technology to keep the system from bankrupting states.
People
Leavitt: Katrina demonstrates need for e-health records
Most people displaced by Hurricane Katrina have no medical records, making it difficult for clinicians working in disaster medical centers to treat them, the HHS secretary says.
Digital Government
EDS scores Medicaid contracts with two states
Florida and Oklahoma select EDS to process their Medicaid health care provider claims.
People
New help for consumers to pick best hospital
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services adds three new quality measures to the 17 already available for consumers to compare hospital performance.
Modernization
HHS seeks volunteers for Katrina disaster relief
The agency has created a Web site for medical professionals and IT and communications personnel with experience in health care IT who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts.
Modernization
Red Cross works to restore communications at shelters
Red Cross CIO Steve Cooper says the organization is working to restore communications with its 300 shelters in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
People
Outdated hospital bed system hampers Katrina relief effort
The National Disaster Medical System relies on phone calls and faxes to gather information about available beds following disasters.
People
911 wiped out in many areas
Rescue workers say there is no communications infrastructure in some areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.
Digital Government
State legislatures back health IT for Medicaid
National Conference of State Legislatures support push for expanding health information technology to Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and sick.
People
Navy sends understaffed hospital ship to ravaged Gulf Coast
The USNS Comfort will sail Saturday with only enough medical personnel to staff 250 of the ship's 1,000 hospital beds.
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