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NewsObama names Harvard doc as health IT chief
Last Friday, Harvard Medical School professor Dr. David Blumenthal was named the national coordinator for health information technology according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: AHIP promotes health IT for cost-cutting; UCSF creates infosec task force after break-ins; and much more...
> Health insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans is pushing the adoption of EMRs and other health IT as a means of cutting healthcare costs. Read more...
Health IT bill stalled in Senate
A federal bill intended to foster the development of a national HIE and support the development of clinical data-sharing standards has stalled in the Senate. The bill, the Wired for Health Care Read more...
Bill would tighten HIPAA privacy protections
Brace yourselves--HIPAA rules may be getting tougher. Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would change language in HIPAA to give patients more control over their protected health Read more...
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