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What will it take to keep the federal government's community health data 'ecosystem' healthy?
Establishing health insurance exchanges will thrust states into uncharted IT territory. The challenge? Connecting healthcare and e-commerce
Tweets, widgets and bloginars are becoming essential to protecting the safety of the nation's food supply.
Public health labs struggle to connect to a four-year-old network designed to tighten the nation's influenza line of defense.
New patient consent rules will alter health IT design as well as the basic relationship between doctors and patients, experts say.
State Medicaid offices scramble to set up systems to oversee pending flow of health IT subsidies to providers.
This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care applications.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group are the first to pass government muster as authorized to test and certify electronic health record systems to qualify for meaningful use incentives under the stimulus package. There are more to come.
What will it take to keep the federal government's community health data 'ecosystem' healthy?
The merger of two Atlanta-based technology firms with extensive footprints in the payer industry is designed to provide health plans and insurers with access to more consumer health data.