Government & Policy
A second forthcoming bill would set into law the government's national health IT coordinator and set milestones for federal agencies' work to advance health IT.
Fifty mapping experts will donate time and equipment to gather data that can help improve services to the poor in developing countries.
The U.S. Agency for International Development will soon award a multimillion-dollar contract to develop a global supply chain management system for AIDS drugs.
Only 26 of the state's 58 counties are working to exchange electronic health records across disparate information systems.
Prescription medicine data for evacuees fleeing Hurricane Katrina's devastation is now available on a single Web site.
CMS makes open-source-based e-records software available for evaluation as part of limited release.
Retired Army colonel spent 26 years in Army Medical Service Corps.
Federal Web sites continue to climb in the public's estimation, according to the latest quarterly rankings.
Katrina has shown beyond doubt the necessity of moving to electronic records, policy figures argue.
The recent Health IT Summit showed that progress is happening on many fronts.
