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The White House said Thursday, March 5, 2009, that it had selected Vivek Kundra, 34, the chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, to be appointed as the First Federal Chief Information Officer.
He will be expected to oversee a push to expand uses of cutting-edge technology, and will have wide powers over federal technology spending, over information sharing between agencies, over greater public access to government information and over questions of security and privacy. He is widely recognized for his advocacy of "cloud computing", and for using SOA to reduce costs and improve communication with the public. |
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HIMSS Praises Stimulus Package Allocating $19.2 Billion to Healthcare. HIMSS broke the funding down as follows: - $19.2 billion to modernize health information technology systems, divided into:
- $2 billion is for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
- $17.2 billion will provide incentives through the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement systems to reward providers and eligible professionals that demonstrate a meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology
- $87 billion to help states with Medicaid
- $10 billion is designated for health research and construction of National Institutes of Health facilities
- $21 billion will provide a 60 percent subsidy of healthcare insurance premiums for the unemployed under the COBRA program
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Retrieve, Locate and Update Service (RLUS) passed the OMG Architecture Board and will now advance to the one-year Final Task Force (FTF) for trial implementation. RLUS provides a web service in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) context for retrieving, locating and updating patient data. It allows for a variety of data formats to be described by metadata so that one simple service interface can serve many needs. RLUS is part of the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP). It is based upon a Service Functional Model balloted by HL7. The first HSSP specification to pass the OMG Architecutre Board was the Entity Identification Services (EIS), which passed in October 2008. Submitters include Software Partners and Intel, and a number of supporters. |
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Entity Identification Service (EIS) passed the OMG Architecture Board and will now advance to the one-year Final Task Force (FTF) for trial implementation. EIS provides a web service in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) context for identity resolution. It allows medical records for common patients originating from different sources to be linked to provide a complete patient history. EIS is part of the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP). It is based upon a Service Functional Model balloted by HL7. |
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