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Health IT panel endorses recommendations for developing standards and common services to support health insurance exchange project.
ONC must decide whether to incorporate the privacy recommendations as part of the rules for the first stage of the meaningful use plan.
Homeland Security Department wants electronic health record system to manage the growing number of illegal aliens in custody at U.S. borders.
Common data elements, standards are needed to share eligibility and enrollment info across insurance programs.
Health information exchanges cannot share patient health information beyond simple directed exchange without a patient's consent, privacy panel says.
An HHS panel recommends building on existing federal standards, Web services and electronic interfaces for state health insurance exchange systems.
Latest report to Congress on security breaches shows steady trickle of smart phone losses; but overall incidents dipped since June.
First meeting of the new national health information network governance workgroup is scheduled for Sept. 3.
A contract to National Government Services will support efforts to verify meaningful use, prepare payments and track them for accuracy.