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Utah Health Information Network will connect rural providers in order to exchange veterans' health records with VA using the NHIN.
The Senate has passed a bill that exempts doctors, among other professionals, from the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flags Rule, which would have required them to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs.
HHS unveils Healthy People 2020 national objectives, including increased health IT, health communications and broadband access.
Norton Healthcare, a Louisville, Ky.-based healthcare system, will use Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and Microsoft HealthVault to aggregate and mine data for its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative.
A new white paper from HIMSS Analytics, sponsored by Lantronix, surveyed 825 healthcare organizations to explore the progress of interfacing medical devices with the EMR.
The Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled Healthy People 2020, new 10-year goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. Officials also launched "myHealthyPeople," a new challenge intended to spur technology innovation in application developers.
With the initial model for the Direct Project, a streamlined version of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) in place, the federal Health IT Standards Committee has been evaluating how well it stacks up technically against other point-to-point data exchange methods.
Future docs take mobile technology as a given.
As many had predicted, 2010 was a year of mergers and acquisitions. Industry insiders expect this reshaping and consolidation will continue apace into 2011 and beyond.