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.
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.”
Digital Government
Health IT to keep lawyers busy
A new report lays out a laundry list of legal issues that must be resolved for health IT to really pay off.
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
Uniform privacy rules are debated
A long-running debate over protecting the privacy of health information made an appearance at a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
Digital Government
Health association calls for code updates
A medical records code set currently in use is outdated and running out of room for expansion, the American Health Information Management Association says.
Digital Government
Health IT could get boost in Fed health plan
Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.) plans to introduce a bill to get the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, the largest health plan in the country, to use health IT.
Digital Government
Take your medicine
How many federal agencies have adopted the health information technology standards that Congress approved in 2003 and 2004 as part of a White House-sponsored e-government initiative?
Digital Government
Consumers willing to pay for health IT
Accenture survey of 519 consumers found that 93 percent expect electronic medical records to improve the quality of care.
Digital Government
Health IT bills merged
The sponsors of two major Senate bills to promote health information technology have joined forces, merging the two major bills.
Digital Government
HHS seeks names for IT advisory board
A high-level commission, to be chaired by HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, will include 17 members from government and the private sector.
Digital Government
SSN: Not a candidate for patient IDs
The American Medical Association considers resolution banning use of Social Security numbers because of concerns about identity theft.
Digital Government
Why a national health care ID isn’t worth the fight
A conversation with the Markle Foundation's Carol Diamond about patient identifiers and the development of a national health information network.
People
Slow-going for anti-bioterrorism projects
CDC, DHS systems for detecting and managing epidemics or bioterrorism attacks are years from deployment, GAO reports.
People
Hope for patient ID dwindles
Experts now pin hopes on new ideas, such as record locator services, to help doctors find patient information.
Digital Government
Survey: Medicare patients not IT beneficiaries
A minority of Medicare patients in 2001 visited doctors who used clinical IT tools.
Digital Government
Tennessee backs BlueCross records project
Participation by the state's Medicaid program paves way to provide 4 million Tennessee residents with electronic medical records.
People
Medicare Web apps in development
First application will enable physicians to check on a patient's eligibility for benefits.
Digital Government
More health IT bills introduced
Like other recent legislation, the latest efforts to promote use of technology comes with bipartisan backing.
Digital Government
Kerry prods Republicans on health IT funding
Senator criticizes failure to commit more fiscal 2006 funds to support e-health initiatives.
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