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President Obama gets his own EMR
President Obama is a huge supporter of electronic medical records because it cuts costs and delivers better health care. His economic stimulus plan includes billions of dollars to bring the American... Read more...
$1 billion flowing for health IT
The Obama administration is dedicating $1 billion for health IT projects, developing the networks to use them and training workers in how to do it. The grants were announced last week by Health and... Read more...
NIH to require tracking of radiation exposure
The National Institutes of Health is turning to electronic medical records to keep track of radiation exposure. It will require CT makers and other radiation-producing imaging systems used at NIH... Read more...
IT cuts SSA disability wait
The Social Security Administration is finally turning to technology to cut the backlog of applicants applying for SSA disability benefits. In the last few years, it has been taking as long as two... Read more...
Obama seeks tiny IT budget increase
President Obama's proposed fiscal 2011 budget was delivered to Congress on Monday, and it includes $79.4 billion for information technology, InformationWeek reports. The proposal would hardly be a... Read more...
With Perot, Dell gets bigger foot in Fed IT market
Computer manufacturer Dell is expected to get a bigger foot in the federal technology consulting and services market with the $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems. Dell's acquisition, announced... Read more...
FTC issues personal health record security rule
A new rule makes it mandatory for vendors to notify consumers if their personal health records online have been breached. The new rule is based on a mandate from Congress requiring the Federal Trade... Read more...
Inside the VA with CIO Roger Baker
Roger Baker, the new CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has a long and distinguished career in information technology, both inside the government and in the private sector. As the VA's... Read more...
SSA to use EMRs to speed disability claims
The Social Security Administration is planning to use electronic medical records to solve a vexing problem--cutting down on its backlog of applications for disability claims. Even before EMRs become... Read more...
VA IT may get a huge windfall
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...
