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Policymakers streamlining standards-making for new forms of nationwide health information exchange.

The not-for-profit Sutter Health network, in Sacramento, Calif., is helping its patients connect not only with its resources, but also with doctors, clinics and ERs nationwide, using a free application that they can download on their smartphones.

The Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is launching a one-year program that will use a text messaging platform to increase medication adherence in its teenage heart transplant patients.

EHR vendors can now begin to apply to have their products certified as capable of delivering meaningful use outcomes, Blumenthal says.

The VA looks to their own for innovative ideas on making existing health IT systems deliver better care to veterans.

Healthcare agencies across the government spectrum are turning to dashboards to show constituents exactly where they stand in community health performance.

Damaka Inc. hopes to find a niche in the government health IT space for its mobile unified communications and collaboration (UCC) product, which recently expanded its reach on Apple's iPad and RIM's BlackBerry.

Despite ubiquity of mobile phones among care-givers, the first priority among CIOs is readying systems for meaningful use.

States are turning to sophisticated electronic provider credential verification systems to curb fraud and abuse as well as to cut overhead and improve patient safety.

The Air Force is adding clinical support tools and fixing workflow gaps in AHLTA, part of a strategy for preparing the e-health workhorse for its high risk, theater-focused mission.