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.
Anytime, anywhere pathology
New digital pathology technology enables military doctors, government scientists and university researchers to speed diagnoses and save lives.
(Posted July 30, 2008)
Health IT confronts the genome
Government-backed scientists and policy-makers have started down a path that will ultimately link genetic information and electronic health records.
(Posted July 30, 2008)
News, Analysis, & Opinion on Impact of Government on Health IT
Community-grown health IT
At a time when many organizations are installing commercial EHRs, a dozen Michigan counties have adopted customized solutions that rely on a hosted approach, collaborative design, and open source mind-set.
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.
