Hospitals seeking to meet quality reporting requirements in the final rule for the first stage of "meaningful use" of electronic health records will face a number of hidden data capture requirements,... Read more...

A much anticipated final rule on what constitutes the "meaningful use" of electronic health records - at least in an initial phase - saw a July 13 unveiling by the Health and Human Services... Read more...

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... Read more...

A "who's-who" of private sector technology companies met on Wednesday to caucus on ways to modernize the federal electronic health record system that stores the medical records for millions of... Read more...

Controlling proper access to government computers is a big challenge for some federal agencies, creating security issues and involving high costs. At the Department of Health and Human Services,... Read more...

Roger Baker, the chief information officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said he believes that computerized records including electronic health records will vastly upgrade services for all... Read more...

The Senate Appropriation Committee recently gave the heads up to the Department of Veterans Affairs for more than $3.3 billion for information technology in 2010. The money, still in the hopper,... Read more...

Roger Baker, the VA's new CIO, has plenty of ideas about what information technology works and what doesn't for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is certain of one thing: It won't be easy moving... Read more...

There's a headache every day somewhere in the federal IT world. And this time, the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to take two aspirin and retool. A report by the Inspector General finds that... Read more...

A new website may be developed to teach the public about personal health records as the Obama administration moves quickly to e-Health. The idea is being proposed by the Office of the National... Read more...