When earlier this year Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra began touting a series of Office of Management and Budget-led reviews of agency technology programs dubbed "TechStat," we were curious to know more. Read More »

Health information technology czar David Blumenthal is calling on vendors to increase electronic health record adoption among physicians serving underserved minority populations. Read More »

Big data will revolutionize healthcare, says a new five-year strategic plan from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Read More »

Several healthcare associations endorsed in a June 16 letter a federal advisory committee's recommendation that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology delay the first deadlines for stage 2 meaningful use attestation for electronic health records from 2013 to 2014. Read More »

As electronic health records start to become pervasive in physician practices--thanks in no small measure to federal incentives--there's a growing worry that electronically-collected health data could violate individual privacy, even when the data has been stripped of personally identifiable information. Read More »

Earlier this spring, David Riley and Vanessa Manchester, two leaders of the Federal Health Architecture’s open source CONNECT data exchange initiative, announced the formation of the nonprofit Alembic Foundation. Read More »

On Oct. 1 the Veterans Affairs Department plans to allow employees access to a "particular set of very popular [mobile] devices," once they are secure and encrypted, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker during a June 30 press call. Read More »

Among the Health Market Innovations presented at the 2nd annual National Roundtable on Health Market Innovations here in Manila were two globally-influential health information platforms.At the meeting, participants evaluated 20 programs to ascertain which had the most impact, were truly innovating, effectively targeting the poor, using appropriate technology, and having an impact. All the programs will be added to the CHMI Programs database. Read More »

In short: building international development open data portals will help to create a more effective, data-literate aid sector; openness fosters a culture of learning and improvement, and if you’re doing something interesting with data, talk about it.

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As large government organizations go, the Veterans Affairs Department has been an example of what to do and what not to do for large enterprise technology deployments. Although it has endured its share of missteps and scandals, in recent years, VA has become a model for how federal agencies can streamline and modernize their network architectures. Read More »