New Partnership Between HHS and UK Could Benefit Health IT

A new partnership could let the Health and Human Services Department build better health information technologies. HHS is joining up with the United Kingdom through a bi-lateral agreement so both parties can share and use their Health IT tools and services. The agreement was signed at the Annual Meeting of the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The agreement will focus on four key areas of Health IT, sharing quality indicators to identify best practices, opening up data to help each other collaborate, increasing the use of Digital Health Record Systems, and trying to find ways to boost the Health IT marketplace. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the two countries have very different health infrastructures, but both face the same health challenges.

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