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The federal government is zeroing in on the need for usability standards as an essential step for accelerating health IT adoption and ensuring the safety of health IT systems.
The Leapfrog Group's new report on CPOE points to the harm that could occur to patients when healthcare IT is employed without proper testing and monitoring.
A year from fighting for consumer protections in the HITECH Act finds the privacy advocate girding for another campaign.
Risk analysis and disclosure logging will become routine in upcoming era of health information privacy.
The Department of Agriculture debuts a system it says will transform the nation's food safety practices.
The space agency, the National Cancer Institute and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles are pushing the frontiers of pediatric health IT.
For Mary Wakefield, who has spent a lifetime seeking medical resources for the poor, health IT levels distances and disparities.
In opening its health data reservoirs to the public, HHS hopes to breed health IT originality, innovation.
Should the federal government get involved in the design of electronic healthcare record systems? The Office of the National Coordinator has billions of dollars riding on EHR usability.
In a meeting held Friday, the HIT Policy Committee approved recommendations by the Privacy and Security Tiger Team that would establish health information exchange credentials and help to protect personal health information.