Government & Policy
Plan calls for defining a minimum common set of patient data to enable e-health across European Union by 2012.
The Office of the National Coordinator will award 11 contracts to develop XML-based information sharing framework.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise forms partnership with pathologists to pursue lab device interoperability.
Food agency calls the site first step in setting up 'one-stop shopping' for reporting safety risks to multiple agencies.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services would simplify process for authorizing practitioners to offer telemedicine services.
Privacy workgroup says strong security policies remove the need for new consent rules for direct health info exchange.
The Veterans Affairs Department's fiscal year 2011 budget request represents a cornucopia of potential business for IT and health IT firms.
Electronic visibility into all systems and devices on VA's network should improve longstanding information security vulnerabilities, VA CIO says.
Insurance shopping platform part of request for proposals to enhance state's eligibility determination systems.
Group asked to find standards for exchanging eligibility data electronically among state and federal HHS programs.