In 1999, a survey which was run by Dr Tom Ferguson in conjunction with the Sapient Health Network (now WebMD.com) indicated the internet was driving some major changes in the healthcare industry. The survey posed 12 questions to just under 200...
InfoPath is slated to debut by midyear in conjunction with Office 11, according to Microsoft. As part of the announcement, Microsoft has shown how InfoPath-created forms can be used to route data according to the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA...
In the United States, medical and insurance companies are bracing for a key deadline involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which aims to protect the privacy of health records, among other things.
The Taiwan government has completed the distribution of 22 million Java-based ID cards to its citizens in one of Asia's largest deployments to date. The country's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) adopted Sun Microsystems' Java card...
Harry Cayton, chair of the CRDB, said the core work of the board will be carried out by "action teams" that will define the processes within care and across the care boundaries that will be enabled through the use of IT.
On the face of it, there seems to be little for the security industry in Sarbanes-Oxley, which aims to make corporate accounting more transparent, or in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which deals with health care...