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Telemedicine offers benefits, risks

While telemedicine may sound like science fiction, it is already a reality, Scholl said. And NIST is working on standards to make the overlaying technology work.

Tags: AFCEA Health IT Day 2011 , telemedicine , Matt Scholl , NIST , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris

Wednesday - 11/02/2011, 08:51am EDT

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VA's Blue Button now being adopted by private sector

The Veterans Affairs Department is trying to get the wider public to adopt the "Blue Button" technology it developed to give its patients direct access to their medical information. Atlanta-based RelayHealth won a department-sponsored contest for the fastest company to develop and implement the single-click technology that allows patients to download their health records.

Tags: VA , Peter Levin , RelayHealth , Jim Bodenbender , veterans , contests , McKesson , Blue Button , technology , Emily Kopp

Monday - 10/31/2011, 03:43am EDT

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Health care reform rises to top of priority list

The reformation of the country's health care system is one of the next priorities for President Barack Obama and Congress, and the Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be at the center of this effort.

Tags: Tracking the Transition , pay and benefits , Xavier Becerra , Max Baucus , HHS , CMS , ONC , Senate Finance Committee , House Ways and Means Committee , health care

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT

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