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HHS Names Public Health Grant Winners

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | September 1, 2011

This is the second year of CDC's five-year program known as the National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII) Strengthening Public Health Infrastructure for Improved Health Outcomes grant program. More than 100 people have already been hired through the NPHII and an additional 116 positions are expected to be filled through the new awards. Read More »

Humetrix Invited to Present its iBlueButton® Mobile Solutions on the Main Stage of the Health Data Initiative Forum III, Health Datapalooza.

Press Release | Humetrix | June 1, 2012

Humetrix is pleased to announce that it will be presenting its award winning iBlueButton® mobile apps on the main stage of the third edition of Health Data Initiative Forum, Health Datapalooza, which will be held at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. June 5-6, 2012. Read More »

IT Firms Vie for Federal Awards Worth $20 Billion

John Pulley | NextGov | July 6, 2012

A total of 54 companies are eligible to compete for up to $20 billion in information technology and health IT products and services, primarily for the National Institutes of Health and its parent agency, the Health and Human Services Department. NIH is the executive agent. Read More »

Open-Source Health Care Software

Adrian Gropper | Virtual Mentor | September 1, 2011

Software tools are yet another new technology competing for the attention of physicians. Medical software is evolving rapidly from a record-keeping tool to a communications system to a source of decision support and plays the role of a medical device or clinical service. Read More »

Park: Health Data ‘Out of Control’

David Stegon | FedScoop | June 5, 2012

Health data is starting to get out of control. Fortunately, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, that’s a good thing, especially with the number of new companies taking to the data and entering government challenges.

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RESTful Health Exchange

Brian Ahier | Government Health IT | August 2, 2012

I have been involved in a new S&I-affiliated initiative called RESTful Health Exchange (RHEx), which will test application of the REST-style (Representational State Transfer) architecture to health information exchange...RHEx is attempting to develop specifications for secure RESTful transport for healthcare exchange to be used in conjunction with SOAP and SMTP currently being used in Exchange and Direct. Read More »

RWJF, ONC, National Health Leaders Launch Quality Effort

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 1, 2011

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched an effort to increase awareness about what consumers can do to identify and receive higher quality health care. The “Care about Your Care” project is a month-long effort starting Sept. 1 to help consumers become more aware about the uneven quality of care that the U.S. health system delivers. Read More »

Sivak Named New HHS CTO

David Stegon | FedScoop | June 14, 2012

The Department of Health and Human Services has named Bryan Sivak as the department’s next chief technology officer.

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Telemedicine Comes to Amarillo VA

Russell Anglin | Amarillo Globe News | March 25, 2012

The Amarillo VA Health Care System received $625,000 between fiscal years 2010 and 2011 to bring Mobile Telemedicine Cart devices to the Amarillo medical center, as well as to outpatient clinics in Lubbock, Childress and Clovis, N.M., spokeswoman Barbara Moore said. Read More »

The Social Return on Data

Staff Writer | Bloomberg Businessweek | February 23, 2012

You don’t normally find serial entrepreneurs working for the U.S. government. But Todd Park, who co-founded three companies by the time he was 36, believes he can help make Americans healthier. Read More »

Todd Park on The Awesome Potential of Hidden Medical Data

Gene Ostrovsky | Medgadget | August 1, 2012

Todd Park, the Chief Technology Officer of the United States, spoke at the last TEDMED about vast amounts of data trapped within government agencies that needs to be “liberated” so that private players can create “awesomeness” out of it. Read More »

Usability of Health IT Tools

Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | October 22, 2015

 

A recent article of mine celebrated a clever educational service offered on the Web by theUS Department of Health and Human Services. I ended with a list of three lessons for the health care field regarding usability of health IT Tools, which deserve further explanation. Communications can be improved by using the advanced features provided by the Web and mobile devices. In the HHS case, developers went to great lengths to provide a comfortable, pleasant experience to anyone who viewed their content, even if the viewers were visiting a different web site and the HHS content was merely embedded there.

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VA Western New York Healthcare System Unveils Electronic Medical Record Initiative to Benefit Veteran Patients

Press Release | HEALTHeLINK, VA Western New York Healthcare System | July 31, 2012

Western New York is one of 13 communities in the United States selected by VA to participate in the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Communities Program. Participating physicians from VA, private practices and hospitals across Western New York will be able to access critical health information for their Veteran patients through HEALTHeLINK, Western New York's clinical information exchange. Read More »

What do mHealth, eHealth and Behavioral Science Mean for the Future of Healthcare?

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | May 21, 2012

We're living through one of the most dynamic periods in healthcare in our collective history...This month, I had the opportunity to discuss some of these trends with Dr. Audie Atienza (@AudieAtienza), a researcher who focuses on behavioral science and healthcare.

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Todd Park to Speak at Commonwealth Fund in San Francisco

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
June 18, 2012 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 
SF Club Office
Blue Room, The Commonwealth Club
United States

Park will discuss how advances in technology will continue to affect changes to our health-care system, create jobs and improve life for Americans. He will focus on his current work and how Healthcare.gov (which he helped create in his previous position as CTO of HHS) is being incorporated to help reduce health-care costs. He will also briefly discuss his overall work as CTO and how his health-care work ties in to this. Park joined the administration in August 2009 as chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this role, he served as a change agent and “entrepreneur-in-residence,” helping HHS harness the power of data, technology and innovation to improve the health of the nation.

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