Among the steps announced yesterday is that 137 federal data centers will close by the end of the year. (Kundra reported that 39 have already closed.) Almost one-third of the closures – 52 – will occur at the Department of Defense.

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As part of their ongoing development of telehealth resources for veterans dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have created a smartphone app.

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This week a research team at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School launched a prize to encourage innovative app developers to build new products and services that benefit patients and providers. Read More »

The Indian Health Service wasn't the first healthcare system to have its have its electronic health-record system certified as capable of meeting meaningful-use criteria under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but it is one of the largest.  Read More »

A couple of months ago, The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued its Report to the President on Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans. We want to tell you how SMART fits in. At a high level:  Read More »

Two House Armed Services Committee panels on Tuesday sharply reduced budgets for the next-generation electronic health record system and key Defense Department communications systems pending receipt of reports requested by the panels. Read More »

The GAO identified four key areas for IT process improvement -- Department of Defense business systems, enterprise architecture, data centers, and e-health records -- and gave recommendations for how the government could eliminate overlap in these efforts. Read More »

The federal government is offering a total of $12 million in one-time grants to help networks of rural health-care providers achieve "meaningful use" of electronic health record systems. Read More »

The Defense Department will participate in the Veterans Affairs Department's source selection of a "custodial agent" meant to set up a moderated open source electronic health record development ecosystem, VA and DoD representatives said May 3. Read More »

There are huge amounts of data from worldwide cancer research. So much, perhaps, that individual research sites would have a tough time managing it all on their own. With caBIG, however, there are plenty of ways to share and easily access such data without the burden of keeping it all in-house. Read More »