The federal Health IT Standards Committee received an abundance of comments along with a report from a work group reviewing a set of 12 specifications for information sharing to be used in the proposed nationwide health information network, or NwHIN. Dr. Read More »

Lying just a few miles north of London, the soot cloud in 2005 risked sending rates of lung and heart complaints soaring in the densely-packed capital. Before long, government health advisers turned to QSurveillance. The real-time patient assessment tool was one of the fastest ways of measuring the impact of the disaster on the nation’s health.

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Innovation through an open source model has proven to be successful for software development. This success has led many to speculate if open source can be applied to other industries with similar success. Read More »

One of the major challenges in developing countries like India is to make health care accessible in rural areas. Seventy percent of rural areas in India lack hospitals, physicians, and medical care. With the growth of the Internet, several healthcare portals are now available to provide appropriate solutions to common problems. Read More »

The CDC will overhaul BioSense in November, amid a wave of new data-sharing tactics rolling in from other fields that promises to bolster surveillance methods and architectures. Read More »

Now that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has the attention of physicians and hospitals to improve care through the meaningful use of electronic health records, ONC intends this autumn to emphasize strategies for reaching out to consumers to participate more in their healthcare. Read More »

A high school teacher once told Alena Stern ’12 that the prospects for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa were “hopeless.” Stern’s unwillingness to accept this statement sparked an interest in international development that has come to define her undergraduate career. Read More »

Washington has a problem. The men and women who serve and have served in uniform and their families deserve quality health care...The Pentagon, however, has built a system that is increasing flawed. Read More »

The agencies are harnessing health technologies to improve doctor-patient interaction by reaching patients – and their health problems – right where they reside. Here’s how they plan to transform that from buzzword into better care. Read More »

Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national health IT coordinator, urged the Health IT Standards Committee to lean forward with standards that are “good enough” to get started on robust health information exchange instead of waiting until they gain maturity and wide adoption. Read More »