Government & Policy
The new group will fall under CDW Government's management and will spend this year creating a marketing strategy.
The sponsors of two major Senate bills to promote health information technology have joined forces, merging the two major bills.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants public input on what role it and its vast storehouse of data on Medicare beneficiaries should play in the development of personal health records.
Integrator will provide system development and maintenance, other services, for state's systems.
IT coordinator office funding cut by 40 percent to $45.2 million.
A high-level commission, to be chaired by HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, will include 17 members from government and the private sector.
New York City's Department of Health could mandate automatic transmission of blood sugar tests to a patient registry.
The center is partnering with a North Carolina firm to bid on HHS' National Health Information Network prototype contracts.
About 200 companies have expressed interest in contracts for developing prototypes for the National Health Information Network.
A conversation with the Markle Foundation's Carol Diamond about patient identifiers and the development of a national health information network.
