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Health IT panelists want to expand public health IT criteria; envision EHR 'button' for transmitting public health data.
With employment numbers continuing to be discouraging across the country, many information technology decision makers are nonetheless optimistic about IT hiring toward the latter half of the year, according to a new study from CDW.
Standards will need to be more specific in future stages of meaningful use to ensure health information exchange occurs, ONC says.
The Department of Health and Human Services withdrew its final breach notification rule for unsecured protected health information last week, with health privacy advocates calling it "a win" for patient privacy.
Proventys, Newton, Mass.-based maker of advanced decision support technologies, has entered into an exclusive collaboration with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to introduce the Proventys CDS Oncology system.
New York-based consulting firm Deloitte has been designated a Common Security Framework (CSF) Assessor by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST).
The Boy Scouts of America, now celebrating their 100th anniversary this week, is now using wireless access and other forms of healthcare information technology for the first time at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.
CDPH, a New York insurance plan, will invest $1 million in 21 area primary care and pediatric practices to participate in the second phase of the plan's IT-based medical home initiative.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday $51 million in grants to help states launch health insurance exchanges.
Patients who have been hospitalized for congestive heart failure may benefit from a "Home Telehealth" demonstration project set to take place in the Greater Boston area that aims at testing the efficacy of home-based monitoring equipment for older adults with chronic illnesses.