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National Library of Medicine to invite technical and healthcare experts to help create 'Pillbox' type app for breastfeeding mothers.

Department to mull over its experience enforcing the interim breach notification rule to ensure health information is secure.

Some states ramping up efforts to develop statewide HIEs on a foundation of existing exchanges, NASCIO report says.

GE and Intel announced on Monday that they'll join forces on a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living. The new company will combine assets of GE Healthcare's Home Health division and Intel's Digital Health Group, and will be owned equally by GE and Intel.

A Utah health information exchange is accredited by standards group specializes in certifying health information networks.

The new Center for Social Media, slated to launch at Mayo Clinic in late September, seeks to accelerate effective social media use at the clinic - as well as for hospitals, medical professionals and patients worldwide.

Health IT panelists want to expand public health IT criteria; envision EHR 'button' for transmitting public health data.

With employment numbers continuing to be discouraging across the country, many information technology decision makers are nonetheless optimistic about IT hiring toward the latter half of the year, according to a new study from CDW.

Standards will need to be more specific in future stages of meaningful use to ensure health information exchange occurs, ONC says.

The Department of Health and Human Services withdrew its final breach notification rule for unsecured protected health information last week, with health privacy advocates calling it "a win" for patient privacy.