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By John Moore | 05:44 pm | August 30, 2010
Establishing health insurance exchanges will thrust states into uncharted IT territory. The challenge? Connecting healthcare and e-commerce
By Bob Violino | 05:41 pm | August 30, 2010
Tweets, widgets and bloginars are becoming essential to protecting the safety of the nation's food supply.
By Alan Joch | 05:40 pm | August 30, 2010
Public health labs struggle to connect to a four-year-old network designed to tighten the nation's influenza line of defense.
By Mary Mosquera | 05:39 pm | August 30, 2010
New patient consent rules will alter health IT design as well as the basic relationship between doctors and patients, experts say.
By Heather B. Hayes | 05:38 pm | August 30, 2010
State Medicaid offices scramble to set up systems to oversee pending flow of health IT subsidies to providers.
By Paul McCloskey | 05:36 pm | August 30, 2010
This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care applications.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05:12 pm | August 30, 2010
What will it take to keep the federal government's community health data 'ecosystem' healthy?
By Mary Mosquera | 02:45 pm | August 27, 2010
Health IT policymakers discuss assembling electronic directories to operate across state health information exchanges.
By Mary Mosquera | 07:12 pm | August 26, 2010
Systems integrator will test new features of the NHIN for real world uses including secure health record sharing.
By Mary Mosquera | 06:46 pm | August 25, 2010
The $100 billion spent on innovation in the Recovery Act has funded health IT infrastructure and other science and technology advances.