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Following up on a promise made last year, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has officially proposed a $150 Read more...

After a year of review, HHS has formally recognized a set of health IT standards for laboratory results reporting, public health reporting for biosurveillance and consumer management of their own Read more...

It's looking like e-prescribing is going to be the hottest health IT issue under discussion in 2008, according to a growing list of observers and stakeholders in the industry. For one thing, much Read more...

Despite arguments that e-prescribing is unworkable for physicians at present (see next story), a group of Senators have filed a bill which would foster e-prescribing use. The bill, whose sponsors Read more...

It looks like momentum is growing for Medicare to require physicians to use e-prescribing. The most recent push in that direction came from public-private advisory group American Health Information Read more...

It's just a blog--but look who's blogging! In a recent post, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has suggested that not only Read more...

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has spoken out at length in favor of greater transparency in the healthcare system, and has backed that up by offering performance data on health plans, hospitals, home Read more...

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HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt isn't just jazzed about U.S. EMR adoption--he's now joined an international effort to establish standard clinical terminology for use in EMRs. Here's what's going on (amidst a blizzard of acronyms): The U.S. is now one of nine charter members of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHT-SDO). To kick off its efforts, IHT-SDO is using language developed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), known as the Systematized …

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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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