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The government unveiled an updated EHR-ready version of the Surgeon General's Internet-based family health history tool on Tuesday.

The Utah Health Information Network is poised to provide care providers with complete access to patient data. UHIN tapped San Jose-based Axolotl for the technology and services to power the network.

President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to create jobs by employing information technology to improve healthcare.

It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund.

The American Health Information Community, more recently known as AHIC Successor Inc. and colloquially as AHIC 2.0, will now be called the National eHealth Collaborative, or NeHC.

President-elect Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan has gained the endorsement of healthcare CIOs around the country.

Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform.

The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a plan Wednesday that includes healthcare information technology as a critical piece in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The goal is to save lives and reduce healthcare costs.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has called on Congress to invest $30 billion on broadband, the smart electronic grid and healthcare information technology as a way to create as many as 949,000 jobs.

Four healthcare industry organizations are collaborating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on a 5010 testing project of the new X12 HIPAA 5010 transactions.