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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded $15 million in two new contracts for work on the Nationwide Health Information Network.
As I write this column in late August, Congress is on summer recess and Washington seems to be asleep in the hot afternoon sun. But appearances aren't what they seem. There is some exciting healthcare IT legislation brewing on Capitol Hill that just might make a spark come fall.
ONC will announce “soon” the names of the authorized testing and certification bodies, Carol Bean, ONC's division director for certification and testing at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) said during a phone conference on Aug. 18.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra joined a diverse group of statewide healthcare and technology agencies Aug. 17 at the UC Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento to launch the California Telehealth Network (CTN), which is set to be the largest in the nation.
The Department of Health and Human Services withdrew its final breach notification rule for unsecured protected health information. Withdrawal of the rule came in late July, just days before the Rite Aid Corp. agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of federal privacy rules.
There will be no shortage of hot-button discussion topics at the 82nd annual convention and exhibition of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Orlando from Sept. 25-30.
The tiny state of Rhode Island is in many ways the perfect place for proving efficacy and interoperability of various healthcare information technologies. Its modest size makes it especially well suited to test-run the exchange of medical information.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is partnering with IBM to market UPMC's "smart" hospital rooms nationwide.
The University of North Carolina Health Care System (UNCHCS) will implement the Lawson Human Resource Management suite, including the Lawson Employee and Manager Self Service application.
As details about the back-up files that went missing from a Massachusetts hospital emerge, it's apparent that even with HHS' new proposed rules on security and privacy set to take effect soon, hospitals may still have to do more when it comes to protecting patient data.