Health IT
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DHA Calls on Industry to 'Make IT Boring Again'
Top leadership at the Defense Health Agency want industry partners to "make IT boring again" by being anything but boring.
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Health IT Leaders Prioritize Human-Centered Design, Security Among Agency Goals
Federal agencies that manage and administer health care are often faced with a series of challenges they must overcome to meet their mission, but greater interoperability, cost efficiencies and security play large parts in managing those challenges.
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Federal CIO Praises Data Leadership, User-Centered Design at Health Agencies
As federal agencies officially begin to leverage data as a strategic asset, per the direction of the Federal Data Strategy and several legislative directives, Federal CIO Suzette Kent said agencies focused on health care delivery are already well-positioned leaders in applying data in meaningful ways for the citizens they serve.
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How Leveraging Data Prevents Financial Fraud, Abuse at HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services has been leveraging data and data analytics to help prevent fraud, waste and abuse of resources and to manage its grants programs in more effective ways — especially over this past year, said HHS Office of Inspector General Chief Data Officer Caryl Brzymialkiewicz.
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DHA Sees Year of Progress with MHS Genesis, Interoperability
The Defense Health Agency has progressed over the past year toward consolidation of its health IT assets and operationalizing a number of technology initiatives.
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NIH Prioritizes Cloud Migration in 2020 IT Ecosystem Plan
The National Institutes of Health is aggregating and integrating scientific data across various enterprise data platforms to advance biomedical research. With that effort, researchers are encountering challenges that cloud-service technologies could address in the coming year.
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Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
HHS's Office of the National Coordinator promotes widespread use of health information technology.
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Machine Learning, Text Analytics Aid in Food Safety at FDA
A new automated data analytics program is crucial for the early detection of signals and predications for regulated chemicals that may pose highly hazardous health risks at the Food and Drug Administration.
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CMS Releases Pilot Program for Data Interoperability
A new API pilot program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow clinicians to access beneficiary claims data, supporting interoperability between providers.
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Military Legacy Health Systems Update Their Services
DHA has updated TRICARE Online (TOL), for example, to include several services that provide active-duty service members, veterans and their families with 24/7 access to care and online health services.
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Cooperation with Security is Crucial in Delivering Health Care
Cybersecurity does not have to be an impediment to delivering efficient health care if security professionals are incorporated much earlier in the development process...
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NCI, VA on Protecting Patient Privacy and Secure Data Sharing
Federal agencies are collecting massive amounts of health data from patient electronic health records and clinical research trials for new insights, treatments and discoveries.
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