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iHealthBeat is a free news digest reporting on health care policy and politics.
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ONC Kicks Off Public Comment Period for EHR Certification Rule
On Thursday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published in the Federal Register a proposed rule creating a temporary and a permanent program to approve entities to certify electronic health records. The public will have 30 days to comment on the temporary program and 60 days to comment on the permanent one. Healthcare IT News, Health Data Management.
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Panel Weighs Strategies for Balancing Health IT Privacy, Research Goals
The Health IT Policy Committee's strategic planning work group recently discussed how to strengthen health IT privacy while also promoting research. Members suggested allowing consumers to decide how to share their health data. InformationWeek, Federal Computer Week.
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VA To Upgrade VistA EHR System With Web-Enabled Aviva Platform
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to develop Aviva, a new electronic health record system designed to supplant the agency's 20-year-old VistA EHR platform. The Aviva system is designed to be Web-enabled and interoperable with other agencies' health IT systems. Government Health IT.
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Pulling the Plug on VA Replacement Scheduling Program To Save $37M
Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed that eliminating the planned redesign of the agency's Replacement Scheduling Application Development program would account for about two-thirds of the expected savings from canceling 12 IT programs. Federal Computer Week.
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CDC Successfully Uses Supermarket Data Cards in Salmonella Tracking
For the first time, CDC successfully used data from supermarket data cards to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak. Other health agencies have relied on data card information in the past, but CDC has never before succeeded in using the data in an investigation. AP/Ventura County Star.
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