Harris Corporation...in partnership with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), has launched a secure email service that enables health care providers to exchange health information electronically with other providers.  Delivery of the Direct Secure Messaging (DSM) service marks Harris' first milestone in the four-year, $19 million contract awarded to develop Florida's statewide health information exchange (HIE).

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Chronic post-service mental health problems like PTSD are injurious, disabling, and represent a significant public health problem. According to the Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) states, "We now have more soldiers that have died by suicide than in conflict." Read More »

About 3 percent of Americans have used a federal mobile app in the past year, according to a survey released Monday, and 18 percent say they'd like to. Read More »

While the Army and FEMA prepared for Hurricane Irene by deploying satellite trucks to provide emergency communications in the event that the storm knocked out cellular and wired networks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated a network that harks back to the early days of radio communications. Read More »

Social media has been used before to report and respond to disasters...Now the Weather Channel is getting in on the act. Read More »

Android has the foundation to support enterprise use, but there's a handful of missing pieces that need to be addressed if it's going to fully catch on in the corporate world. Below I look at five enterprise areas that Google and third-party developers need to work on. Read More »

As healthcare security pundits increasingly warn of rampant security threats associated with mobile phones, tablets and other devices, researchers at MIT may have found a solution to at least one major risk. Read More »

A study of emergency-department visits conducted by Humana in the Milwaukee area shows that payers can save money if EDs have access to community health information exchanges (HIEs). Read More »

The Veterans Affairs Department is set to make its open source agent operational tomorrow and make available the software code of various applications in the electronic health records of VA and the Defense Department. Read More »