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HHS spends $60 million to find EMR obstacles
The Department of Health and Human Services is working harder to help find barriers to adoption of electronic health records and to fix them. Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS' national coordinator for... 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...
HHS likely to certify EMR technologies
The Department of Health and Human Services is likely to take on a new job soon: certifying what health record technologies qualify for billions of dollars in reimbursements under the stimulus... 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...
Universal VA e-health records coming your way
A lifetime electronic health record for members of the military and veterans is not just a dream; it's the reality that the Obama administration is determined to achieve. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki... Read more...
How to make e-Health records a reality
The Obama administration is about to spend $19 billion to make computerized medical records a part of doctor's offices. It's one of many components in the stimulus plan signed into law last week. But... Read more...
