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Visit eWeek.com and check out their special report on the "Future of Health Care IT." How would you spend $240 million on health care? A committee in California is planning how to do just that. How about helping your Alzheimer's patients by having them...

eWeek.com, in its Health Care News section, reports in an article entitled "Stitching Up Health Records: Privacy Compliance Lags" that more than 80 percent of companies involved in health care have technology and processes in place to provide the level...

eWeek.com reports in its Health Care news section in an article entitled "Survey: Hospital CIOs Want Electronic Medical Records" that a survey of more than 200 health care executives, mostly CIOs at hospitals in the U.S., reports almost one-quarter of...

This article, posted by Tillinghast Licht Perkins Smith & Cohen, LLP, on Findlaw.com, looks at the application of information technology to the health care industry from a decided legal standpoint. Outlining the broad goal of health care reform as...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) is calling for Medicare to reimburse primary care physicians for using electronic health records and communicating with patients via e-mail and telephone, according to this article on "Government Health IT." Medicare...

"Government Health IT" published an article on January 25, 2006, reporting that the Center for Health Transformation, an advocate group in Washington DC, told the Medicaid Commission that "technologies are available that can deliver markedly better...

An article in the January 27, 2006 "The Oregonian" revealed that 365,000 digital files containing copies of patient records for emergency backup were stolen out of a health system employee's car, stirring privacy advocates, legal authorities, and patients...

This survey, published in April 2005 by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), was released in conjunction with the second annual National Health Information Privacy and Security Week, April 10-16, 2005, to raise awareness among...

Executive Summary This report examines current state and federal law protecting the confidentiality of health information. It focuses on four specific areas: public health information held by government, privately held health care information, HIV and...

"The Emergence of National Electronic Health Record Architectures in the United States and Australia: Models, Costs, and Questions," by Tracy D. Gunter, M.D. and Nicolas P. Terry, LLM, is a referenced, peer-reviewed viewpoint article appearing on the...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) web site, HHS.gov, is home to all kinds of information about healthcare initiatives. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) provides information on various technology-related...

"By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care."President George W. BushState of the Union Address, Jan. 20, 2004This article, from Whitehouse.gov, outlines the President's view of challenges...