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Report: HHS Has Weak Plan for Health IT Privacy
A prominent health IT think tank has advocated against granting more authority to health IT personnel within the federal…
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Report: National Health Information Network Needs More Coordination
A report by a leading health IT group concludes that the federal government should have more oversight over health…
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Former Health IT Czar: Government Inaction Is a Business Opportunity
The former health IT czar is urging biotech executives and investors to find cash by fixing the nation’s health…
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National Health Network Should Be Set Up For Research
The nascent Nationwide Health Information Network should be set up to conduct clinical research, says FasterCures, a Washington-based nonprofit…
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Large Employers to Provide Online Personal Health Records
A group of large employers, including Intel and Wal-Mart, announced a plan to supply their 2.5 million employees with…
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Health Secretary Calls on Employers to Support IT
Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt is asking U.S. employers to pressure the health care industry so…
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Federal Workgroup Releases Guidelines for Verifying Patient Identities
A federal workgroup studying privacy issues in health information technology on Nov. 15 released a preliminary set of recommendations…
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Report: Clinicians Use Inadequate Message Devices
Doctors and nurses are loading up on multiple communications devices, none of them adequate to their needs, concludes a…
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Sharing of Health Information Progresses, but Privacy Lags
A year after a federal advisory committee recommended how health information could be shared, the country has moved a…
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Study: Few Physicians Use IT at Work
The low adoption of electronic medical records and e-prescribing is well known. Now, a new study has worse news:…