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ONC launches cancer care app challenge

 Bernie Monegain May 17, 2013
The ONC is looking for developers to create apps that help cancer survivors manage the complex transitions from speciality to primary care.
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ONC holds contest for apps to fight cancer among minority women

 Mary Mosquera August 28, 2012
ONC seeks mobile phone application that delivers information directly to minority and medically underserved women at high risk of cancer.
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Q&A: Harris president Jim Traficant on the 'genius' vision of open source in VA and DoD iEHR

Tom Sullivan June 11, 2012
The VA and DoD are setting a model the rest of the country will want to follow with the joint iEHR. Traficant explains the SOA piece of iEHR, and the brilliance of bringing in the open source community.
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Time for social media to serve core federal healthcare services

 Government Health IT Staff June 04, 2012
As federal and public health entities, such as the CDC and NCI, add social media to their toolboxes, they are seeking ways to move beyond typical marketing functions and into core aspects of healthcare. Government can be difficult to move, and social media will be no exception, though some insiders are saying the time is nigh.
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ONC reveals mobile data best practice initiative

 Eric Wicklund January 26, 2012
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced Privacy & Security Mobile Device Project, and said it intends to "bring awareness and understanding" of mobile security issues to the clinical sector.
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VA Blue Button contest is 'front door' for all patients to access data

 Mary Mosquera July 25, 2011
VA wants to bend the model to extend to small providers the ability for all patients to download their health information, Levin says.
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Cancer Institute, ONC open contest for cancer prevention apps

Mary Mosquera July 22, 2011
Developers will design tools to promote information about early detection, screening and healthy behaviors and potentially integrate with health IT.
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Pediatric health IT, a space odyssey

Brian Ahier June 27, 2010
The space agency, the National Cancer Institute and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles are pushing the frontiers of pediatric health IT.
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NCI will offer cancer e-care record for providers

Mary Mosquera April 19, 2010
National Cancer Institute plans to make a lightweight electronic health record available for sharing clinical data.
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HHS teams with Microsoft on personal health app

 John Moore February 25, 2010
Surgeon General Benjamin announces plan to extend family health history tool via third-party personal health record systems.
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Global eye on TBI

 Peter Buxbaum January 05, 2010
Military software would enable traumatic brain injury images to be studied at any time, on any platform.
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Connect software will embed 'meaningful use'

Mary Mosquera November 03, 2009
HHS's Connect program adds software tools to help facilitate e-prescribing, nationwide file sharing and other federal requirements.
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NCI to standardize cancer research data

 Mary Mosquera October 21, 2009
National Cancer Institute plans to harmonize data across multiple research communities to improve information gathering and sharing.
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An open health data mandate

 Paul McCloskey September 11, 2009
In our cover story, the National Cancer Institute's Ken Buetow refers to "information liquidity," his way of describing what a mature nationwide health information network would mean to the biomedical research community. It's a vivid term, conveying infor
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Bringing health information to life

 Paul McCloskey September 10, 2009
In the most recent issue of Government Health IT, the National Cancer Institute's Ken Buetow refers to "information liquidity," his way of describing what a mature nationwide health information network would mean to the biomedical research community. It's a vivid term, conveying information velocity and immediate access to the nooks and crannies of the health research community.
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NHIN software released to open-source community

 Paul McCloskey April 07, 2009
Open-source version of the Connect gateway will enable any health care organization to link to National Health Information Network.
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HHS: Personalized medicine will rely on IT

 Kathryn Foxhall November 25, 2008
Recent initiatives aim to connect islands of information, but many gaps remains, an HHS report says.
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Feds report successful collaboration on NHIN interface

 Nancy zz_Ferris November 11, 2008
The free software will be available to the public in March, an ONC official said.
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Job 1 for the AHIC successor?

 Nancy zz_Ferris July 29, 2008
Adding standards for medical research data to those for e-health records could be the first "value case" for the new organization, a leader says.
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ONC: Open source is key to agencies' NHIN connections

 Nancy zz_Ferris May 01, 2008
Dallas conferees say federal agencies will share a connector that could be used more widely in and outside the federal arena in the future.
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