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Federal Tech Talk Interview with Dr. David Blumenthal
April 13, 2010Dr. David Blumenthal did an interview with John Gilroy of SolutionsDevelopers for Federal Tech Talk Radio. The interview provides a great overview of how Dr. Blumenthal rose to his position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with a background of medicine, health policy, ...
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HHS Announces Second Round of REC Awards
April 6, 2010Today an additional 28 awards were announced in the second round of REC funding. The addition of the 28 RECs brings the total of RECs in the program up to 60. Now, the REC program has coverage in nearly every geographic region of the United States, which ...
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Trouble on the Health Information Highway: VA Closes Off Access to the Defense Department’s EHR System
March 8, 2010Early last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs found errors in some patients' medical data that clinicians downloaded from the Defense network. While these errors were not linked to any adverse events, such errors are raising flags that software glitches could compromise the accuracy ...
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Do you know what today is?
February 17, 2010One year ago today, the American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) was signed into act. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which is part of ARRA, authorized the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of the National ...
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