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Walgreens will use Surescripts' Clinical Interoperability services to electronically deliver patient data directly to primary care providers. The intent, say Walgreens officials, is to improve the coordination of care.

The HHS chief technology officer, widely-viewed as a driver of change, takes over from Aneesh Chopra as assistant to President Obama and U.S. CTO.

Todd Park will take over as assistant to the President and U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO), filling a vacancy created by last month's departure of Aneesh Chopra, the nation's first CTO.

With the release of the third-generation iPad, we look back through the device's history in healthcare, and examine the ways physicians, patients and IT professionals have used it. Here are 11 stages of the iPad's history in healthcare.

HL7: not just for IT anymore. That thinking is the catalyst behind a triptych of recent moves designed to open the standards process up to more health professionals, notably caregivers.

By involving more health professionals -- caregivers specifically -- the organization hopes to not only enhance aspects of HL7 such as usability, workflow, domain content, but also to enable a more comprehensive and specific manner of decision support at the point of care. Well, that and other initiatives in genomics and mobile health.

Jimmy Farris played for the Redskins and Falcons. Now, he's looking to harness that grit in a fight for Idaho congress, and among his campaign strategies is to point out the benefits health reform has already brought to Idahoans.

For physicians, the proposed rule for meaningful use Stage 2 offers some changes that make it easier for healthcare providers to demonstrate the requirements, including aligning measures with other quality reporting programs.

Meaningful use stage 2 proposed rule eased some burdens for physicians and rightfully focused on exchange, Waldren says.

National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan has submitted her resignation, effective late June 2012.