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Open Health Tools, a multi-stakeholder open source community whose chief health informatics officer is Robert M. Kolodner, MD, the former national coordinator, is joining with the Georgia Institute of Technology on a public-private initiative designed to accelerate the adoption of health information technology.
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has signed up 30,776 veterans so far to participate in pilots around the country for the virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) program. VA CIO Roger Baker discusses VLER and the other initiatives that make it tick.
At RSNA 2011 on Monday, radiologists and imaging professionals from across the country and around the world prepped themselves to make the most of a fast-changing healthcare landscape -- one in which health IT will play an increasing and pivotal role.
The federal advisory Health IT Standards Committee is asking for feedback from individuals and organizations experienced in deploying specifications developed for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN) Exchange.
Eighty percent of respondents to a March 2011 Healthcare IT News survey of hospital and health system IT professionals showed that achieving meaningful use was top of mind – above privacy and security concerns.
A bill introduced last week seeks to provide greater legal protection to Medicare and Medicaid providers that use electronic health records.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it is revising a rule that aims to make it easier to share records related to the treatment for drug abuse, alcoholism or alcohol abuse, HIV and sickle cell anemia with the Department of Defense.
RelayHealth, McKesson's connectivity business, has been awarded a $50,000 prize as the winner of the VA's "Blue Button for All Americans" personal health record contest.
The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates is using WebChart EHR from Medical Informatics Engineering to collect, track and manage medical information gathered from field physicals on eight U.S. military bases throughout Area Support Group Kuwait.
Some 26 percent of CIOs say their organizations have qualified to receive stimulus funding under the HITECH Act, and others expect to qualify in ensuing years, according to a recent survey from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).