A framework for strategic action: the report from HHS's secretarial summit on health information technology, cornerstones for electronic health care.
Abstract: The National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) conference this year was influenced heavily by the recent Federal initiatives to accelerate the adoption of information technology. Renamed the "Department of Health and Human Services Secretarial Summit on Health Information Technology: Cornerstones for Electronic Health Care", health care information...

Technology could improve health system.
Information technology is a "fundamental building block" for a reformed U.S. health care system that provides affordable coverage to all Americans, according to a recent report from the Center for American Progress. The report, "Navigating American Health Care: How Information Technology Can Foster Health Care Improvement," outlines...

Elevating the role of medical informational officer.
IN THIS ARTICLE ... Consider the reasons why a chief medical informatics officer should be part of the senior management team of a health care organization. Throughout the country, many hospitals are getting ready to implement physician order management systems, collectively known as CPOE (computerized...

Automation of health care: first czar of health information technology takes the helm.
Dr. David J. Brailer has an ambitious job description--to aid the widespread deployment of health information technology within 10 years. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson appointed Dr. Brailer as the first National Health Information Technology Coordinator in May. In this...

Hospital surveillance.
The 2006 scandal linking Hewlett-Packard chief executive officer Patricia Dunn with illegal covert tracking of board members, journalists and their families is definitely cause for caution. Having been a community hospital board member for 10 years, I have seen hospital surveillance technology grow, making the aforementioned HP affair a...

Use of information technology to improve the Quality of Health Care in the United States. (AHRQ Update).
INTRODUCTION In 1969, when the Internet was known as the DARPAnet and the World Wide Web was nothing more than a glint in a creative student's mind, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded its first project in medical informatics. (1) Since then, the Agency has...

Butil party-list group urges approval of JPEPA.
Party-list Butil, the country's biggest farmers' organization, yesterday called for the ratification of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), saying the agreement would boost agricultural exports to Japan, add R53 billion to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and place Filipino professionals in the restricted Japanese labor market. ...

IUPAC InChI/InChIKey Project joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance.
The continued development of new and powerful medications for treatment of disease relies more and more heavily on collaborative projects, involving organizations possessing a wide range of complementary skills. The discovery techniques developed over many years by the pharmaceutical industry can now be married with a new generation of...

High-tech medical records: can electronic records transform health care?
In the middle of a legislative session, a veteran legislator from an out-county district walks into the ER near the Capitol complaining of a headache and nausea. He is handed a stack of forms to fill out. Unable to recall most of this information, he is forced to leave...

Is HIPAA helping in any way? (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
YES One of the positive things about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is that the statute outlines a set of minimum national requirements that people can follow. The statute makes it possible for vendors, the health care information technology industry, medical practices, hospitals, and...