Government & Policy
An HHS panel recommends building on existing federal standards, Web services and electronic interfaces for state health insurance exchange systems.
Latest report to Congress on security breaches shows steady trickle of smart phone losses; but overall incidents dipped since June.
First meeting of the new national health information network governance workgroup is scheduled for Sept. 3.
A contract to National Government Services will support efforts to verify meaningful use, prepare payments and track them for accuracy.
An opt-in only policy on using EHRs could reduce the meaningful use of health data.
Scheme will help assure the identity of service members, a key challenge of the military's lifetime electronic record project.
The popularity of phones using Google's Android operating system are proving that Apple's iPhone and iPad aren't the only mobile platforms seeing action in the health IT marketplace.
The state's public welfare office is staging a new IT system it hopes will streamline meaningful use incentive payments to Medicaid providers.
Second-round meaningful use should require higher marks for using health IT for medication reconciliation, say docs.
New rules would help clear the way for a wave of new organizations to participate in NHIN.