Archive for May 19th, 2009

The Hatfields and McCoys, a metaphor for a modern day high-tech industry rivalry centered on personal health records (PHRs) involving Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault and other PHR vendors. An image that a West Virginia health care lawyer can really appreciate.
Thanks to a tweet by @2healthguru for pointing out the CNET article, Microsoft, Google in [...]

There has been a great deal of debate over how much significance to attach to last weeks promise by health care industry leaders to do our part in achieving the Obama administrations goal of cutting health care cost grown by 1.5 percentage points annually. President Barack Obama called the occasion a historic day, a watershed [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released an operating plan titled the Health Information Technology American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Implementation Plan.
The operating plan is included on the DHHS Agency Wide Plan page under the “List of Recovery Programs within HHS.”


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