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Big data will transform healthcare, says ONC

Big data will revolutionize healthcare, says a new five-year strategic plan from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The plan, released for public comment on

Blumenthal: EHR interoperability won't be easy

Adopting electronic health records and making them interoperable is not going to be easy, says health information technology czar David Blumenthal . In a recent conversation with FierceEMR, he said

Blumenthal: Minorities lack physicians utilizing EHRs

Health information technology czar David Blumenthal is calling on vendors to increase electronic health record adoption among physicians serving underserved minority populations. In an open letter

Anonymized health IT data still traceable, House panel warned

As electronic health records start to become pervasive in physician practices--thanks in no small measure to federal incentives --there's a growing worry that electronically-collected health data

New rules for ehealth records

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will seek public comment starting on Jan. 13 for proposed rules and standards in regards to a national electronic, digital health record system.

HHS launches a health IT blog

If your agency doesn't have a blog online, you better start thinking about developing one. There are blogs popping up throughout government, the latest way to communicate to the public via the

Harvard doc named to head HHS health IT

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week named David Blumenthal as the national coordinator for health information technology. In this newly created position, Blumenthal will lead