Government Health IT

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says mobile body area networks (MBANs) have the potential to improve clinical outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

Why telemedicine, health IT camps need each other

May 11, 2012 |

Patty Enrado

By 2015, many EHRs will have interfaces for telemedicine applications, but new national standards are needed to address the fragmentation in EHR and HL7 application, according to a recent panel.

VA set to kick off third Innovation Initiative

April 5, 2012 |

During this iteration, the VA is homing in on four specific areas of care, PTSD among those.

7 mobile myths, debunked

March 28, 2012 |

Mike Miliard

Mobile application developers, in avoiding these misconceptions, improve their chances of creating apps that are truly useful.

Todd Park praises galaxy of innovative apps

March 27, 2012 |

Mike Miliard

Speaking at the HxD Conference, new U.S. CTO says that the future holds more good than we can even imagine right now, touts innovation, government data as drivers.

Smartphones improve Kenyan disease surveillance

March 13, 2012 |

Mary Mosquera

Kenyan flu surveillance survey data collected with smartphones was more accurate, faster and cheaper than paper-based data, CDC said.

ONC proposes more resources for privacy campaign

February 23, 2012 |

Diana Manos

Two-year initiative looking to explore consumer attitude and preferences.

HIMSS takes over mHealth Summit

February 16, 2012 |

With HIMSS12 next week, the organization announced on Thursday that it is subsuming the budding mHealth Summit.

ONC kicks off app contest to give disabled patients access to EHRs

February 14, 2012 |

Bernie Monegain

As HIT is not always as accessible for people with disabilities as it is for others, ONC is offering $60,000 grand prize for the best mobile application to address that problem.

Sen. Udall drafting bill to kill telemedicine barriers

February 2, 2012 |

Mary Mosquera

Legislation is needed to streamline medical license portability among states to accelerate telemedicine in the absence of market changes.

Minnesota: A shining star for health IT

February 2, 2012 |

Mike Miliard

Often considered the healthiest state, Minnesota began harnessing HIT to bridge private and public health years before the HITECH Act. It's building on that EHR foundation for health information exchange, and is also currently cultivating a new crop of HIT professionals: informaticians.

3 Beacon communities to kick off Txt4health

January 27, 2012 |

Government Health IT Staff

Text-messaging program to help participants assess diabetes risk, manage health, connect with care resources.

Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it

October 12, 2011 |

In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.

Best Practices for the Implementation of Telepresence in a Telehealth Solution

June 29, 2011 |

GHIT Staff

Join Michael Young, director of Telemedicine at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, as he shares best practices in implementing telepresence as part of the telehealth solution.

Prepping for medical data capture on smart devices

March 29, 2012 |

An inside look at the U.S. Army's efforts to decide on an ideal mobile device that will serve as a great platform for accessing multiple resources.

Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT

December 30, 2011 |

No rest this season in the federal hit realm as CMS and OIG talk ACOs, fraud. A flurry of reflections, predictions, reasons EHRs need to mature, and the top mobile searches of 2011.

Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT

December 8, 2011 |

Would you trust Costco and Wal-Mart with your medical records? Why mhealth is a financially-fertile good place to be right now, a bit of welcome relief in the MLR, and the potential for a health 'data spill' that would be worse than what BP did in the Gulf.

Who moved my cheese ... err ... MC4?

December 6, 2011 |

A look at the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care unit's role in the hand-off taking place in Afghanistan and Kuwait.

The Military Medical Technologies Month that was

December 1, 2011 |

A look at what MC4 and some of its partners are undertaking to bring the best of science and technology to medics and soldiers in theater.

EMRs gone in 60 seconds

October 18, 2011 |

Recounting an exercise in which medics tested handhelds against tablets for documenting patient care downrange. Hint: Android devices were popular, but posed some problems.

MU stakeholders push quality over process

October 14, 2011 |

Jeff Rowe

Yesterday we highlighted testimony from a recent meeting of ONC’s Meaningful Use working group in which stakeholders described the difficulties some providers are having meeting the MU requirements.

Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT

October 13, 2011 |

Occupy Wall Street and healthcare, sustainable HIEs, beginning your EMR journey, telesurgery, SOA, ICD-10. It's all in here.

MC4: Shout out for voice recognition software

September 28, 2011 |

Encouraging deployed medical staff to use voice recognition tools, the Army's MC4 unit makes new training and support resources available.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

September 21, 2011 |

ICD-10’s confusing cost estimates, EHRs to become more ‘patient consent’ friendly, the first of 12 best practices for HIT, and more.

Ready for NIE round 2

September 19, 2011 |

MC4 is planning a telehealth demonstration at the upcoming Network Integration Evaluation evaluation to show how information can arrive before patients at the next level of care.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

September 8, 2011 |