U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
See the following -
Blue Button Goes Viral: UnitedHealthcare Promotes Importance of Personal Health Records to Millions of Enrollees
UnitedHealthcare has launched its Blue Button, implementing a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program that enables millions of plan participants to access and print their personal health records with the simple click of a blue button. Read More »
- Login to post comments
DeSalvo Names ONC’s First Chief Health Information Officer
Michael James McCoy, MD, is set to become the first Chief Health Information Officer of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology...
- Login to post comments
Emergency Department EHRs 'Particularly Error Prone'
Electronic health records provide many benefits, but also bring about "unintended consequences" of errors that can affect patient safety in the emergency department, according to a new article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Evolving Patient Rights In The Research And Delivery Of Health Care
...As the idea reached the proscenium this month at the Health Datapalooza, a conference founded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and now attracting more than 2,000 people, patient empowerment marks its entry into the mainstream...
- Login to post comments
HHS Offers $665M To Spark Innovation
The government has divvied up more than $665 million to states for designing and testing ways to improve healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability. The awards will go to 28 states, three territories and the District of Columbia...
- Login to post comments
IEEE Blockchain in Healthcare Event to Premier at HIMSS17
Premiering at HIMSS17, IEEE Computer Society's Blockchain in Healthcare, a Rock Stars of Technology Event , co-hosted with the Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance), will provide healthcare business and IT professionals the knowledge they need now to protect and secure data, electronic health records, connected devices, and health information exchanges with new blockchain technologies. Blockchain in Healthcare, one of the most controversial technologies of 2017, promises to address security and data integrity issues of the increasing volume of patient data managed by doctors, hospitals and insurance companies...
- Login to post comments
Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall
Remarkable progress has been made since I posted a recap of the first White House Roundtable on Patient Access to Health Data took place a year ago that I’ve appended below. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation
Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »
- Login to post comments
ONC Chief DeSalvo Vacates Role, Reider Resigns CMO Post
Leadership changes atop ONC raise questions about the agency’s ability to achieve its long-term plans for interoperability...
- Login to post comments
Security: Healthcare's Fixer-Upper
The alarming state of affairs, how the industry's slack security is bad for business and what some are doing to step it up...
- Login to post comments
The Pentagon Contract That Could Shape EHRs For Years To Come — Epic Pays Out To Win Friends And Influence Congress
GENTLEMEN (AND WOMEN) START YOUR (INTEROPERABLE) ENGINES: The Department of Defense’s $11 billion, 10-year contract for a new electronic health records system won’t just shape military health for the next decade, reports Ashley Gold, it could very well predict the future of electronic health records and their handling of interoperability. Read More »
- Login to post comments