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August 2009 Blog Posts (22)

World Class Health Care - A Medical Imperative

In appropriating funds for the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Congress determined that the military should receive only “world class healthcare” but did not define the meaning of the term. When the Health Systems Advisory panel of the Defense Health Board described in the previous blog was assembled, it decided that its first order of business was to establish a benchmark for world class. After much discussion, research and debate,… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on August 2, 2009 at 4:23pm — No Comments

Latest Institute for e-Health Policy educational seminar on NHIN

The Institute, under the leadership of Neal Neuberger, hosted an education luncheon titled "Progress Toward A Nationwide Health Information Network: Linking Agency-Held Data Now – Providing Patients With Secure Access to Their Government-Held Personal Health Information Next". Vish Sankaran and David Riley of Federal Health Architecture and the CONNECT project, Jim Traficant of Harris Corporation, and Denny Porter, Exec in Residence at the Institute spoke at the event. See an archived webcast… Continue

Added by Reginald Wayne Humphries on August 1, 2009 at 8:09pm — No Comments

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