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Health Information Technology
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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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$1 Billion in Federal Funding Awarded to Support HIT and Healthcare Workforce
February 16, 2010On February 12th, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced a total of nearly $1 billion in Recovery Act awards to first, assist health care providers in the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (HIT); and ...
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mHealth?
February 8, 2010There’s a new buzz word in Health Information Technology: mHealth. mHealth is the term used to describe mobile health, which differs from eHealth. eHealth focuses on technologies to change healthcare, while mHealth focuses on consumers’ behavioral and structural changes to foster participatory healthcare. In e-Health, ...
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