News, Analysis, & Opinion on Impact of Government on Health IT
Is three a crowd?
At least three separate efforts are now underway to certify and accredit health information networks. But multiple programs are only as good as their intentions to develop conforming standards and requirements.
Shortliffe will succeed Detmer at AMIA University of Arizona professor is named president and CEO of American Medical Informatics Association, effective July 2009. (Posted September 4, 2008)
HHS names new batch of 'chartered value exchanges' Department identifies community programs to receive Medicare data and assistance under a project to measure the quality of local health care services. (Posted September 3, 2008)
In the news: Katrina’s toll on health records still lingers Three years after Katrina, every health information management department in New Orleans is still trying to overcome damage caused by the storm, the American Health Information Management Association reports.
(Posted September 2, 2008)
In the news: NIH blocks public access to DNA databases The National Institutes of Health pulls anonymous DNA records off line after learning of a new method to un-mask the identities of patients who were profiled. (Posted September 2, 2008)
Is three a crowd?
At least three separate efforts are now underway to certify and accredit health information networks. But multiple programs are only as good as their intentions to develop conforming standards and requirements.
(Posted September 3, 2008)
New York aims to leverage NHIN demo
State’s role in a recent technical trial of the Nationwide Health Information Network will advance its own goal of health information interoperability.
(Posted August 22, 2008)
Alert net set to go national
After years of delay, states and the federal government are beginning to share public health alerts.
(Posted August 27, 2008)
From the battlefield to the home front: Managing medical data
Government Health IT presents Col. Claude Hines Jr., program manager for the Defense Health Information Management System, in this recent InSight eSeminar. Col. Hines discusses the health information technology and tactical challenges faced by the military medical community in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict. In doing so, he describes the current information technology solutions for transferring clinical data between battlefield care givers to health care personnel at military treatment facilities worldwide.
