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A new website created by the National Institutes of Health aims to educate people on the importance of clinical trials, the agency announced today. The site offers information on the basics of Read more...

Johns Hopkins University and Heart Imaging Technologies (Heart IT), a Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) vendor that makes a product enabling web-based access to medical images, have Read more...

Consumer health technology company SoloHealth received the Intel Innovation Award for its bilingual health and wellness kiosk for retail stores, known as the SoloHealth Station. Presented for the Read more...

Using electronic health records (EHRs) to gather data on sexual orientation and gender identity in federally funded surveys could help providers address specific healthcare issues among lesbian, gay, Read more...

San Antonio (TX) Metropolitan Health District (SAMHD) has established a city registry to monitor the city's diabetics and improve their care. The District's officials plan to use the data to map the Read more...

Now this must be a little embarrassing for officials at NIH. As it turns out, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) was one of 3,000 patients involved in a cardiac MRI study whose records were possibly lost when a Read more...

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt unveiled a new initiative on Friday which would rely heavily on advanced health IT tools to individualize and improve patient care.
Leavitt's "Personalized Health Care" program will link genetic information with traditional health records on a large scale, in an effort to predict and thereby prevent the onset of many diseases. Leavitt has said that this effort will be one of his top priorities for the next two years.

Overall, HHS agencies like the …

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Three universities with biomedical research programs have teamed to create a grid supporting the exchange of cardiac illness data. The Cardiovascular Research Grid, which will link up cardiovascular researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University and the University of California, San Diego, is funded by an $8.5 million grant from the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. For the first portion of the project, the groups will develop software tools which will allow …

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It's about time, guys. Federal agencies are placing a new emphasis on the power of IT to foster healthcare industry changes--budgeting nearly $5 billion for infrastructure upgrades and improved network connectivity. Agencies like HHS, the VA and the Department of Homeland Security will place a particular emphasis on EMR adoption and health data sharing next year. To get that done, they plan to consolidate data centers, hook up isolated systems and move some systems to component-based …

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