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
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
People
At home in the DISA Louisiana megacenter
The megacenter has not been processing a lot of data, but it has housed 120 hurricane evacuees and served 360 meals a day.
People
Physicians' e-mails document post-Katrina horrors
Providing care in hurricane-battered areas was compounded by shortfalls in the National Disaster Medical System.
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
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
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.
Modernization
DOD satellite systems boost Gulf cell coverage
In an unusual step, the Pentagon is using military satellite systems to help improve cell phone coverage in the Gulf Coast states.
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
Carriers scramble to restore Gulf Coast mobile phone coverage
Wireless companies dispatch mobile units to restore lost service in storm-struck region.
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.
Modernization
DHS, Navy and MCI deploy mobile command posts to Gulf Coast
Mobile communications vans are being deployed to the hurricane battered Gulf Coast to fill in telecom gaps.
People
DISA marshals support for Katrina relief operations
The agency is sending satellite communications resources to the Gulf Coast.
Modernization
New Orleans radio system flooded
State police bar entry of radio repair technicians to city.
Digital Government
Battery-operated radio systems aid Katrina relief efforts
The National Interagency Fire Center is sending two-way radios that can run without commercial power to areas where public safety systems have been knocked out by Hurricane Katrina.
Modernization
DOD, Coast Guard deploy satcom systems to Gulf Coast
Agencies provide much needed communications in wake of Hurricane Katrina.
People
DISA Louisiana megacenter closed in wake of hurricane
The Defense Information Systems Agency said its data processing megacenter in Slidell, La., will be closed until this Friday in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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.
People
Army systems to support Katrina disaster relief
The Army has deployed three disaster coordination teams equipped with satellite communications to help relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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