Government & Policy
The American Medical Association considers resolution banning use of Social Security numbers because of concerns about identity theft.
The results of approximately 2,000 lab tests from the last two months were linked to the wrong patients.
Oregon awards a seven-year $73 million contract to EDS to modernize its Medicaid management system for 260,000 claims per month.
A conversation with the Markle Foundation's Carol Diamond about patient identifiers and the development of a national health information network.
CDC, DHS systems for detecting and managing epidemics or bioterrorism attacks are years from deployment, GAO reports.
Experts now pin hopes on new ideas, such as record locator services, to help doctors find patient information.
PDA-like Health Buddy will monitor patients with chronic illnesses, potentially cutting health care costs by five percent.
A minority of Medicare patients in 2001 visited doctors who used clinical IT tools.
Participation by the state's Medicaid program paves way to provide 4 million Tennessee residents with electronic medical records.
One prototype of health data exchange will be based on open-source software.
