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By Mary Mosquera | 11:56 pm | January 06, 2010
Officials say a San Diego pilot program marks a key milestone in meeting a presidential priority to expand military health record sharing.
By Mary Mosquera | 02:00 pm | January 06, 2010
ONC seeks firm to test ability to re-identify personal health data that has been scrubbed of digital links to an individual.
By Mary Mosquera | 05:53 pm | January 05, 2010
The Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects program will focus on barriers to adoption of electronic health records.
By Mary Mosquera | 04:48 pm | January 05, 2010
ONC publishes notices on plans for vendors to evaluate state health IT grant programs and monitor HIT training services.
By Mary Mosquera | 03:28 pm | January 05, 2010
National Quality Forum aims to advance uses of electronic data in charting physician performance.
By Bob Violino | 03:10 pm | January 05, 2010
Food safety agencies are using IT to keep the food supply from becoming hazardous to the nation's health.
By Greg Goth | 03:05 pm | January 05, 2010
The H1N1 crisis focused attention on the need for better IT systems to spot disease outbreaks in K"“12 schools, ground zero for future pandemics.
By Paul McCloskey | 02:57 pm | January 05, 2010
In IT, Medicaid is an emerging player"”but can it be a full partner in nationwide health information exchange?
By John Moore | 02:53 pm | January 05, 2010
The systems used to verify 'meaningful use' will help determine whether $34 billion in federal health IT incentives is money well spent.
By Brian Robinson | 02:50 pm | January 05, 2010
The military Health System is using new IT tools to guide capital planning, one way it hopes to avoid a future health facilities crisis.