Classic wedge or media ploy? Either way, the contraception controversy and proposed legislation may be more a tactic to get women to voting booths than anything else.
A new report by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation finds that, under health reform, leveraging IT and focusing on population health management are a top priority for many providers.
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.
With the aim of strengthening health IT and creating jobs, the Department of Health and Human Services awards $40 million to public health departments.
A Department of Homeland Security research group is working with major food suppliers on computer applications to track and assess the spread of food-borne illness.