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IEEE Standards Association and Continua Health Alliance have signed a strategic agreement to help accelerate and broaden the adoption of globally relevant standards-based technologies for the healthcare arena. The idea is to enable widespread market implementation of end-to-end, plug-and-play personal medical devices.
Republican members of Congress are now moving up the chain of command to find who to hold accountable for failed launch of the Obamacare health insurance exchange website. Todd Park, chief technology officer of the U.S., is next on their list.
United States CTO Todd Park faces heat from a frustrated GOP-led committee, while the public tries to defend him.
Anticipation about the IHE North American Connectathon's move to Cleveland in 2015 is running high among the event's organizers, though they insist that they are not looking past their final year in Chicago Jan. 27-31, 2014.
American public health leaders are challenging the public and private sector to focus on both the population and the person, from regional planning to cancer therapy.
Connecticut, like most states with their own Obamacare enrollment site, is faring well. Now Connecticut's governor is wondering why the feds couldn't do the same.
More than half of U.S. hospitals are currently connected to a regional, state or private health information exchange, with a majority of them citing this as their biggest challenge yet.
The unit overseeing health data exchange between Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs appears to be dormant, not a good sign for the iEHR dream.
Among this week's people on the move, Cleveland Clinic named a new executive director, and Interactive Health welcomed a new chief operating officer.
The Electronic Health Record Association, which represents 40 EHR developer companies whose products are in use at a majority of hospitals and physician practices today, tells the FDA that EHR systems should remain unregulated by the agency.