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Health Datapalooza IV Early Bird Pricing Open

Press Release | Health Datapalooza | January 15, 2013

With less than six months until Health Datapalooza IV on June 3-4, planning and promotion for the event is well underway. We are now selling Early Bird priced tickets until March 3rd. So now is the time to get your conference tickets. Read More »

Health Informatics Education And Training Programs: Important Factors To Consider

Kate Tulenko, Dykki Settle, and Rebecca Bailey | CapacityPlus | May 1, 2013

Health informatics is of growing importance in efforts to improve health outcomes across the globe, involving many components of health systems. [...] Read More »

Health Information For Remote & Rural Eastern Indonesia

Rohan Fisher | FrontlineSMS | May 30, 2013

The use of personal mobile phones has increased rapidly, even in remote parts of Eastern Indonesia, revolutionising the way people communicate. I work in a small regional university in Northern Australia (Charles Darwin University) very close to the Eastern Indonesian province of Nusa Tenngara Timur (NTT). Read More »

Health IT Groups Criticize Information Exchange Regulation Plan

Ken Terry | InformationWeek | July 5, 2012

Organizations representing private-sector stakeholders have reacted negatively to the framework for governance and operations of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) that the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) described in a recent request for information (RFI). Read More »

Health Records Of Every NHS Patient To Be Shared In Vast Database

Sarah Knapton | The Telegraph | January 10, 2014

The health records of everyone in the NHS will be pooled in a vast database which can be accessed by researchers and pharmaceutical companies. But campaigners warn it could breach privacy. Read More »

Healthcare IT VC Funding Is On Pace To Exceed $2 Billion In 2013

Jasmine Pennic | HIT Consultant | July 16, 2013

Healthcare IT VC funding is on pace to exceed $2B in 2013 according to report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Healthcare IT sector for the second quarter of 2013 by Mercom Capital Group, LLC. Read More »

Healthcare Via Shipping Containers?

Seema Singh | Forbes | December 12, 2012

Why not? Being classified as prefabricated structures, containers avoid the regulatory hassles associated with floor area rules or land-use agreements that arise in setting up physical infrastructure. Minimalist in design, it can be transported through rail and used in the remotest corner of the country. Read More »

Healtheway Convenes Carequality To Take HIE To Next Level

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | February 24, 2014

What will it take to ratchet health information exchange up to the next level? The answer pretty much anyone paying attention would fire back: interoperability. Which is not to suggest that will be easy. Read More »

Hearing Focuses On Health Data Exchange Plans Of Pentagon, VA

Staff Writer | iHealthBeat | July 11, 2013

At a House hearing on Wednesday, officials from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs discussed their plans to develop a system to exchange standard clinical health data, rather than developing a joint electronic health record system as originally planned, NextGov reports. Read More »

HELINA 2018: Call for Papers

Press Release | HELINA | May 5, 2018

The 2018 edition of the Pan-African health informatics conference (HELINA) is scheduled from 3rd – 8th December 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference will be hosted by the Kenya Health Informatics Association (KeHIA) and will focus on how technology is being used to strengthen health systems in the African Region. HELINA conferences have been known to provide a platform for both academia and industry to showcase results of scientific research and industry practice. 

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HHS Harnesses the Power of Health Data to Improve Health

Press Release | CMS, IOM, HHS, ONC | June 5, 2012

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Institute of Medicine (IoM) and other members of the Health Data Consortium, are co-hosting the third annual “Datapalooza” focusing on innovative applications and services that harness the power of open data from HHS and other sources to help improve health and health care.

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HHS Opens More Data To Researchers And Developers

Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | June 3, 2013

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday announced the release of new data and new opportunities for researchers and developers. Read More »

HIT Vendor Alliance Comments On Lifting Interoperability Barriers

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | April 26, 2013

The CommonWell Health Alliance, announced in March and comprising a handful of health information technology vendors collaborating to cooperate on systems interoperability issues, has responded to a federal request for information on ways to advance interoperability and health information exchange. Read More »

HL7 Developing New Health Care Messaging Standard

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | May 20, 2013

A new HL7 standard, called Fast Health Interoperable Resources (FHIR), could allow clinical research organizations to extract data from patients' records. Read More »

House Bill Would Mandate EHR Interoperability For Pentagon, VA

Staff Writer | iHealthBeat | July 24, 2013

Late last month, lawmakers introduced a bill (HR 2590) that would require the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to establish interoperability between their electronic health record systems within 180 days of the bill's enactment, EHR Intelligence reports (Bresnick, EHR Intelligence, 7/23). Read More »