Health IT commission restructures EHR certification program
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has announced it is expanding and realigning its program to certify technology used in electronic health records systems.
The health IT industry created CCHIT to help ensure the compatibility of health IT products.
Broadband flows to rural clinics
FCC’s telehealth fund is spurring small-town and rural health care providers to plan powerful broadband connections.
(Posted June 9, 2008)
Will health IT get whacked?
Modest state health IT investments could protect projects in a recession.
(Posted April 25, 2008)
Federal grant pushes frontiers of Montana HIE
The $540,000 award will help build out a health information network to remote hospitals across the sparsely populated state.
(Posted April 17, 2008)
Brooklyn bridges
The Brooklyn Health Information Exchange aims to unite the borough’s chaotic health landscape.
(Posted March 24, 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.
