Department of Health and Human Services

Sep 26th

USPS working with HHS Health IT to build system to access employees health records across platforms?

Karen DeSalvo, national coordinator for Health Information Technology, believes there are assets and methods outside of the medicine space that healthcare professionals could use to develop health IT systems, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Billy Mitchell writes the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT within the Health and Human Services Department plans to collaborate with […]

Sep 26th

Video: USPS bio-terror program maybe coming to an end

As the video points out: USPS and the Department of Health and Human Services has asked Congress for $5 million to fund the bio-terror program an additional 3 years. Without it they cannot expand to other cities or maintain personnel already trained to respond in the event of a bio terror attack. A Government shutdown […]

Jul 9th

USPS and HHS announce program to help major cities respond to public health emergencies

The National Postal Model — a federal program sponsored by USPS and the Department of Health and Human Services — helps prepare major cities in the U.S. to respond to large-scale public health emergencies such as bioterrorism attacks. The plan is a blueprint for distributing oral antibiotics to the public using letter carriers to speed […]