State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media ...

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Health IT vendors and standards organizations are working hard but having a tough time enabling the exchange of health information, according to a Government Health IT news report. In order to meet ...

More governments, territories and healthcare organizations are establishing health information exchanges to enable faster and more seamless sharing of health data among doctors’ offices, hospitals, ...

David Blumenthal, MD, the national health IT coordinator, seeks to quicken the pace on health information exchange after the White House’s call for use of standard language in those exchanges, ...

This version of this story originally appeared in Computerworld‘s print edition. A national electronic health record exchange is far from a reality, but a few local health care exchanges have emerged ...