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Forum: Health reform, technology must align to improve quality of care

July 15, 2009
Reductions in cost and improvements in care are achievable if national efforts to boost health information technology adoption are coordinated ...
Categories: Health    Tags: health IT

Health Information Technology and Health Care Reform Must Be Well-Aligned To Improve Health and Lower Costs

July 15, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC—Dramatic improvements in health and reductions in cost growth are achievable if efforts to boost health information ...
Categories: Health IT and the Recovery Act, Health    Tags: health care reform, health IT, incentives, meaningful use

Groups seek changes in meaningful use definition

July 2, 2009
Major healthcare organizations met a deadline last week to comment on a draft of a policy on “meaningful use” of health IT unveiled ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

Organizations Stump for Patients' Access to Electronic Health Data

June 26, 2009
On Thursday, 56 organizations endorsed the Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information, a set of principles designed to promote ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR

IT tools for consumers needed for reform: Coalition

June 25, 2009
Information tools to help consumers better manage their own health should be part of any healthcare reform, said 56 organizations, employers ...
Categories: Health    Tags: consumers, EHR/PHR

Broad Coalition Says Consumer Role Is Key to Improving Health and Health Care

June 25, 2009
NEW YORK, NY—The future of health care should encourage expanded use of information tools to help consumers better manage their health, ...
Categories: Letters, Speeches, Essays    Tags: consumers, EHR/PHR, health IT, Markle Common Framework, patient engagement, privacy, Recovery Act, security

Benefits of information sharing outweigh vulnerabilities

June 15, 2009
Nowhere is getting the right information at the right time more critical than in the area of national security — defense, intelligence, ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: information sharing

Microsoft HealthVault Continues to Enlarge Its Footprint

June 12, 2009
Nearly a year and a half after Microsoft launched its HealthVault personal health record platform, it cannot supply a list of the healthcare ...
Categories: Health    Tags: EHR/PHR, privacy

Information Silos Stand In The Way Of Interoperability

May 30, 2009
Federal CIOs view integrating systems and processes as second in importance only to implementing stronger security, according to a recent ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: information sharing

HIT best used in tandem with quality, pay: experts

May 20, 2009
Health information technology reforms need to work in tandem with payment and quality initiatives to be effective, industry experts said at a ...
Categories: Health    Tags: health IT
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