Health Records news from FierceGovernmentIT

Health data exchange policies associated with the HITECH Act (.pdf) are taking shape, but a Health and Human Services Department official says providers' incomplete implementation of the Health Read more...

The federal government's chief technology officer says that new standards for health information technology systems need to be kept simple. The comments from Aneesh Chopra came before an advisory Read more...

The Veterans Affairs Department will be developing Internet applications to replace non-electronic processes, as well as implementing social networking programs and cloud computing, according to Read more...

The Social Security Administration is looking to Microsoft's HealthVault software to help cut down the exhausting delays in approving applicants for disability payments. Until now, the SSA has been Read more...

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon have been working on a good idea for a very long time, but it's far from complete. It will make it possible for DoD e-health records to be Read more...

It takes a village to raise a child, a phrase Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once used in her best-selling book. Now it will take two committees to advice the government on health Read more...