People
DOD creates new health office
The Military Health System Office of Transformation established to reform military health services.
Digital Government
Data demonstrates e-health progress
The eHealth Initiative’s new report on health information exchanges shows that there are a growing number of fully operational health information exchange initiatives.
People
DOD Health seeks new database for 8.9 million patients
Pentagon wants to convert its scheduling and registration system to a new database technology.
Digital Government
Federal drug benefit inspires integration work
Systems integrators await new business to help Medicare develop systems for the soon-to-arrive Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Digital Government
System uses quality data to improve health care
Software allows nursing homes to head off falls and other health threats to residents.
Digital Government
The shrink, the couch and the computer
UNM Health Sciences Center tests the use of EHRs in psychiatry.
Digital Government
Long-term care lags in health IT
Developers of Health IT records are overlooking long-term care institutions as they implement records in the health care industry, experts say.
Digital Government
Indiana health net will aid nursing homes
Information available through regional health networks will help managers determine whether they can care for a prospective resident.
Digital Government
Australia releases e-health framework
The framework documents the approaches, policies and tools needed to foster interoperability across the health sector.
People
Health care needs systems know-how, report says
A new study suggests creating university-based centers to train health care professionals to apply systems expertise to health care delivery.
People
Health IT office takes shape
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was officially launched in a notice in the Federal Register.
People
DHS meets with unions about blocked HR system
DHS and union leaders met to discuss what will happen next to MaxHR, the proposed DHS personnel system that a federal judge has forbidden the department to implement.
Digital Government
IT no cure-all for prescription errors
Report shows how errors can occur when doctors use automated systems to prescribe medicine.
Digital Government
Health IT leaders congregate
Upcoming health IT summit brings together federal, state and local stakeholders to discuss the rapidly changing health care and information technology landscape.
Digital Government
Canada sets up e-health innovation lab
The eHealth Collaboratory will support the development of interoperable EHR systems.
People
DOD builds health library for deployed troops
An online library will help service members and others understand the risks that come with the assignment.
Digital Government
Patient ID is trouble spot for commission
Federal advisory group on interoperability was unable to agree on whether to recommend use of national health ID numbers.
Digital Government
HHS pushes forward with IT consolidation
Asset-tracking, financial, e-mail and grant systems are some of the applications that are being standardized and consolidated across the department.
Acquisition
Cerner Corp. wins $51 million DOD health contract
Company will deliver the results of lab tests to online medical records of 9 million service members.
Digital Government
Major legal issues for health IT
Excerpts from a new report, “Assessing Legal Implications of Using Health Data to Improve Health Care Quality and Eliminate Health Care Disparities.”
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