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The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting input on approaches to developing a comparative effectiveness research (CER) inventory that captures ongoing CER efforts in the U.S.
The board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health has appointed Scott Campbell, PhD, as its new executive director and CEO.
Written by Justine Cadet
The proliferation of policies that have sought to distance the relationship between industry and healthcare providers could reduce medical innovations and ultimately, stunt improvements in patient care, according to a presentation by Carey Kimmelstiel, MD, at the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS) annual meeting in Boston in early June.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued Carestream Health its sole source PACS service agreement.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress is calling on all stakeholders to build on the framework of recent healthcare legislation.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $1 billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds have been awarded to construct, repair and renovate U.S. scientific research labs and related facilities.
The FDA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have begun a collaborative effort in which the agencies will establish a Joint NIH-FDA Leadership Council to work on important public health issues, further scientific efforts and make innovative medical therapies available to patients, said the agencies.
Partnerships between academic and government institutions in high- and low-income countries can help establish health informatics programs which can capture and manage data that are useful to all parties. However, establishing effective partnerships in e-health will take time and sustained effort, according to an article in the February edition of Health Affairs.
The John E. Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md., will award more than $9.23 million to eight global health informatics programs over the next five years.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $538,595 to the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, led by Indiana University, to support a two-year project titled, "Protecting Privacy in Health Research."
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.