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By Diana Manos | 03:56 pm | July 08, 2010
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday new proposed privacy and security rules and resources.
By Mike Miliard | 11:59 am | July 08, 2010
Medgadget, an El Granada, Calif.-based blog that's maintained by a group of doctors and biomedical engineers from around the world, has announced the beta release of a new interactive online service for people with medical conditions.
By Chris Anderson | 11:55 am | July 08, 2010
The TriZetto Group Inc. announced this week a partnership with professors who founded the value-based insurance design movement to develop chronic-condition templates as options for healthcare payer customers of TriZetto's Value-Based Benefits Solution.
By Molly Merrill | 11:53 am | July 08, 2010
The increasing adoption of EHRs and other digital technologies by primary care physicians and specialists points to trends expected to create "dramatic upswings in doctors' case loads," according to a new survey by research company Knowledge Networks.
By Paul McCloskey | 11:20 am | July 08, 2010
The Health IT Privacy and Security Tiger team laid out its agenda July 6 for addressing some of the more urgent health information privacy policy gaps confronting federal policymakers before the meaningful use plan goes into effect next year.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:08 am | July 08, 2010
Visionary or worst choice? President Obama's recess appointment of Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is drawing praise from healthcare IT leaders across the country even as his detractors paint him as a champion for socialism and healthcare rationing.
By Molly Merrill | 10:54 am | July 08, 2010
E-mail use between patients with diabetes and hypertension and their doctors resulted in improved quality of care scores, according to a study of patients in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region.
By John Moore | 05:42 pm | July 07, 2010
Municipal integrated delivery system triples number of referrals via health information exchange system.
By GHIT Staff | 05:19 pm | July 07, 2010
A selection of recent emails-to-the-editor on matters large and small to the government health IT community.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:25 pm | July 07, 2010
When President Obama announced on July 2 a $795 million government program to develop broadband access in rural parts of the country, it meant an additional 5,000 jobs up front, he said.