Mary Mosquera
Blumenthal outlines plans to add tools and partnerships for spreading real-world lessons of health IT adoption.
Cincinnati and Detroit will receive $30 million in grants to set up models for clinical and public health information sharing.
Announcement follows recent moves by Veterans Affairs and Medicare to launch 'blue button' apps for their beneficiaries.
Policymakers streamlining standards-making for new forms of nationwide health information exchange.
EHR vendors can now begin to apply to have their products certified as capable of delivering meaningful use outcomes, Blumenthal says.
New patient consent rules will alter health IT design as well as the basic relationship between doctors and patients, experts say.
Health IT policymakers discuss assembling electronic directories to operate across state health information exchanges.
Systems integrator will test new features of the NHIN for real world uses including secure health record sharing.
The $100 billion spent on innovation in the Recovery Act has funded health IT infrastructure and other science and technology advances.
Indianapolis VA and Ind. Health Information Exchange set up network to let VA share veterans' e-health records with private clinicians.