Health IT
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HHS Backs Development of Rapid COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing System
The agency backs a system that will provide test results within three hours, while seeking other solutions.
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HHS Releases Final Rules for EHR Interoperability, Information Blocking
The rules require patient health information sharing among providers for improved patient care.
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Defense Health Officials Tout Consolidation Successes in Budget Hearing
The officials report successful transition of MTFs to DHA and MHS GENESIS EHR deployments to House members.
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DIB's Recommendations for Digitization Can Help Tackle Diseases Like Coronavirus
The world's largest pathological tissue repository can provide researchers valuable data to combat infectious diseases.
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ONC Strategizes Health Data, IT Infrastructure Improvements for Research
The plan aims to leverage quality electronic health data and advance an IT architecture.
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Congressional Perspective: How AI Can Improve Health IT
There are both promises and challenges in applying breaking technology to federal health IT, noted Rep. Michael Burgess during the Digital Health CXO Tech Forum Tuesday.
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These Were the IT-Driven Improvements at HHS in 2019
The Department of Health and Human Services reported significant strides it made in digital services, data initiatives and IT modernization in health care in its 2019 annual report published last week.
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Data Management in Health Care Requires Integrity, Standardization, Access
Health care innovation in 2020 and beyond demonstrates the rapidly increasing value of data in developing better solutions and giving patients greater access to care and freedom in finding the care that fits them best.
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EHR Interoperability and Emerging Tech in Focus at HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services has been working to reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens using advanced technology toward giving patients easy access to their electronic health records, Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan highlighted Tuesday.
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HHS Charts Path to Efficiency Through Software Asset Management
The Department of Health and Human Services’ policy for Software Asset Management is one of the key ways that the agency is meeting legislative and executive mandates to modernize and drive efficiency into IT category management challenges.
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HHS Outlines Next Five Years of IT in Strategic Plan
The Department of Health and Human Services has released for public comment its draft of the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan — which largely highlights the importance of empowering end users, leveraging data resources, increasing transparency and cybersecurity, as well as driving cost-spending efficiency.
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VA Addressing Promise and Challenges of Patient Data Continuity
The Department of Veterans Affairs manages one of the largest health care networks in the U.S. and is in the midst of a broad-reaching modernization push designed to reform the agency’s full breadth of service lines.
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