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What’s Missing in US eHealth Policy?

Posted By Keith W Boone on February 24th, 2010

Five years ago the eHealth solutions shown on this map of the world: http://tinyurl.com/wwxds did not exist, but they now provide better quality and more productive healthcare for millions of patients. The happy accident that led to the Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) and XDS

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Mattias Ganslandt

Keith: I guess the point some are trying to make in the US debate is that ICT in health care has a great potential to reduce the administrative burden. eHealth is seen not only as "new services" but rather as a means to improve productivity. Not as e...

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Standards for Government Data But What About Standards for Mashups?

By Ajit Jaokar on March 9th

There has been a lot of interest in governments liberating data. The overall intention is: Data owned by the government in many cases is locked up and ...

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eHealth Forum- A Summary

By Mattias Ganslandt on March 1st

On Thursday February 25, Talkstandards hosted a lively open forum on ICT Standardization and eHealth. Ajit Jaokar spoke of the possibility that eH...

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ICT Standards and eHealth

By Jay Kesan on February 25th

In the e-health sector, ICT standards are obviously important since ICT solutions for healthcare are heavily data and information driven and having sea...

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Can Web 2.0 Trump eHealth Interoperability Issues?

By Denise Silber on February 24th

One of the barriers to the adoption of eHealth is the adoption of standards. And there are in turn unending barriers to the adoption of standards: le...

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What’s Missing in US eHealth Policy?

By Keith W Boone on February 24th

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