Government & Policy
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants public input on what role it and its vast storehouse of data on Medicare beneficiaries should play in the development of personal health records.
A high-level commission, to be chaired by HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, will include 17 members from government and the private sector.
IT coordinator office funding cut by 40 percent to $45.2 million.
About 200 companies have expressed interest in contracts for developing prototypes for the National Health Information Network.
New York City's Department of Health could mandate automatic transmission of blood sugar tests to a patient registry.
The center is partnering with a North Carolina firm to bid on HHS' National Health Information Network prototype contracts.
The American Medical Association considers resolution banning use of Social Security numbers because of concerns about identity theft.
The results of approximately 2,000 lab tests from the last two months were linked to the wrong patients.
Oregon awards a seven-year $73 million contract to EDS to modernize its Medicaid management system for 260,000 claims per month.
A conversation with the Markle Foundation's Carol Diamond about patient identifiers and the development of a national health information network.
