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By Alan Joch | 05:40 pm | August 30, 2010
Public health labs struggle to connect to a four-year-old network designed to tighten the nation's influenza line of defense.
By Mary Mosquera | 05:39 pm | August 30, 2010
New patient consent rules will alter health IT design as well as the basic relationship between doctors and patients, experts say.
By Heather B. Hayes | 05:38 pm | August 30, 2010
State Medicaid offices scramble to set up systems to oversee pending flow of health IT subsidies to providers.
By Paul McCloskey | 05:36 pm | August 30, 2010
This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care applications.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05:12 pm | August 30, 2010
What will it take to keep the federal government's community health data 'ecosystem' healthy?
By Mary Mosquera | 02:45 pm | August 27, 2010
Health IT policymakers discuss assembling electronic directories to operate across state health information exchanges.
By Mary Mosquera | 07:12 pm | August 26, 2010
Systems integrator will test new features of the NHIN for real world uses including secure health record sharing.
By Mary Mosquera | 06:46 pm | August 25, 2010
The $100 billion spent on innovation in the Recovery Act has funded health IT infrastructure and other science and technology advances.
By Mary Mosquera | 04:57 pm | August 25, 2010
Indianapolis VA and Ind. Health Information Exchange set up network to let VA share veterans' e-health records with private clinicians.
By Heather Hayes | 02:48 pm | August 25, 2010
Under $135M deal, IT services firm will upgrade state Medicaid management system, add e-prescribing and provider enrollment features.