Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Medical/Health Care News

The Dept. of Health & Human Services is developing and will be implementing a “strategic plan to guide the nationwide implementation of health information technology in both the public & private health care sectors,” according to an article in Aspen’s Medical Benefits newsletter .
A 92-page report by the GAO identifies “lessons learned from the Dept. of Defense and Veterans Affairs toward implementing a national IT infrastructure.”

Also in the July 30th. newsletter, for those interested in health issues, was an article addressing the fact that “comprehensive information on the full range of medications that people take, including prescription & over-the-counter drugs, vitamins/minerals, herbal/natural supplements, is not available.” The Sloan Epidemiology Center at Boston University in May 2005, however, issued the “first population-based survey to provide comprehensive & ongoing information on use in the United States of the broad range of medications.”

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