The Veterans Affairs Department and Kaiser Permanente launched a pilot project in November in the San Diego area to test how clinicians in both organizations can exchange electronic health records over a national network that the federal government is creating to share medical information. Read More »

The more than 600 public-health laboratories in the U.S. gather and report critical data on disease outbreaks and threats to national security, but data collection and IT infrastructure largely have been specific to a single public-health program such as HIV prevention or tuberculosis treatment. Read More »

The information economy has led to different forms of participation access and collaboration. Within development circles these themes have been associated with development birthing concepts love ... Read More »

The Open mHealth project, developed at UCLA and UCSF, provides technology for  health apps that transmit a variety of data to the project's central data warehouse. This data can include information entered by users and also such things as smart-phone GPS- and accelerometer-tracking information. Read More »

Synopsis: Public health laboratories (PHLs) are critical components of the nation’s healthcare system, serving as stewards of valuable specimens, delivering important diagnostic results to support clinical and public health programs, supporting public health policy, and conducting research. Read More »

From the time they arrived to the moment they laid their heads on hotel pillows, the thousands of cardiologists attending this week’s Heart Rhythm Society conference have been bombarded with pitches for drugs and medical devices. Read More »

According to Edmonton Chief Information Officer Chris Moore, the city has launched its official open data site at edmonton.socrata.com. The site is powered by Socrata. Read More »

A new study by a safety net hospital organization concludes that the 340B drug program saves each participating hospital an average of $5.2 million a year. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to bolster its enterprise mobility environment to include iPhones, iPads and Android devices, in addition to BlackBerry devices, reports Brian T. Horowitz at eWeek. Read More »

Africa is the world's second-least developed continent--after Antarctica. Read More »