Grant Gross

The U.S. military should embrace user-driven Web services such as wikis, video-sharing sites and social-networking sites as its focus grows to include providing more security and reconstruction help, a defense analyst recommended Wednesday.

Four vendors on Tuesday demonstrated electronic health records (EHR) and showed off their prototypes to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information Community (AHIC) advisory board.

A proposed database that would keep track of hundreds of millions of money transfers in and out of the U.S. will not be ready by the original target date, according to a report issued by U.S. Department of the Treasury Wednesday.

Doctors in the U.S. will have access to free, Web-based electronic medicine prescribing software within a month, a group of health care providers and technology vendors announced Tuesday.

Doctors in the U.S. will have access to free, Web-based electronic medicine prescribing software within a month, a group of health-care providers and technology vendors announced Tuesday. (NEPSI) are to get every U.S. doctor and pharmacy to use e-prescribing software and to eliminate thousands of injuries and deaths in the U.S. each year caused by prescription errors, supporters said at a press conference in Washington, D.C.

A U.S. attorney has charged Bryan Wagner, an independent investigator who worked for Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) while the company tried to find the source of board leaks, with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy.

Dozens of government data-mining programs collect private data about Americans with few civil liberties safeguards and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday.

Rules requiring independent audit mechanisms for electronic-voting machines are likely coming, but the changes won't happen overnight, a group of advocates said Friday.