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Veterans Affairs capitalizes on its stable patient population and health care mission to strengthen U.S. disease detection.
The Veterans and Defense departments open first-ever joint medical center, a model for future military health record system integration.
Following an outcry over the health care of U.S. immigration detainees, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is slowly taking steps"”including acquiring e-health systems"” to reform
It's now or never for regional extension centers, who are picking EHRs, amassing personnel and prepping for what could be big paydays for providers"”and themselves.
Health IT policymakers are relying on federal healthcare agencies to pilot new standards and uses of the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network.
Health IT vendors should make sure they market and sell their products and services to health care providers in minority communities to avoid a new form of "digital divide" that could leave low income areas without the benefit of electronic health records
Federally funded "beacon" communities are tackling the problem of hospital readmissions and other tough health care challenges by testing the effectiveness of multiple treatment strategies simultaneously instead of taking the traditional approach of testing one treatment at a time, according to the program's director.
The Office of the National Coordinator deserves credit for managing to pull together, in less than two years and with a small but apparently tireless staff, a plan for rolling out a system of electronic health information sharing across the country.
HRSA releases community clinic finder while DOD launches mobile app to track service members emotional health after deployment.
The stage is set for an explosion in population health mapping that will serve up a 'visual understanding' of disease trends and directions.