Government Health IT: Table of Contents
Features
Us vs. them
Regional health information exchanges require participants to dampen the urge to compete. But it’s not clear yet whether collaboration is more powerful than competition.
Public health smartens up
CDC’s National Center for Public Health Informatics aims to help public health organizations prepare data-handling systems for a national health information exchange.
VistA’s horizons
The VA’s VistA Imaging system had its beginnings in a government worker’s basement home office. Now it straddles three departments and hundreds of clinical offices.
Editor’s letter
Practicing the personal touch
What is it going to take for doctors and hospitals in the same community to share patient health information?
Policy
Better building blocks
Spotlight
Ambulatory care: The further outpatient
Tech Briefing
BPM software makes health care headway
Back Page
The best path to electronic health records