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Social Security & Health IT

Our Health IT Initiative

Social Security is more than retirement. We use about 15 percent of the Social Security taxes collected from workers to provide disability insurance. This makes the Social Security Administration one of the largest disability insurers in the world.

Health Information Technology (Health IT)—the use of electronic health records to promote efficiency and improve care—holds great promise for improving the speed and effectiveness of our disability decision making process.

So, we’re expanding our Medical Evidence Gathering and Analysis through Health Information Technology (MEGAHIT) program to provide the benefits of Health IT to more of our claimants and more of our health care provider partners.

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Request for Proposal

 

Resources to provide medical records using Health IT

 

Health IT News

Social Security Awards Nearly $20 Million in Recovery Act Contracts For Electronic Medical Records (Aquí en Español)

Social Security to Test Use of Microsoft’s HealthVault in Disability Process (Aquí en Español)

Social Security to Fund $24 Million in Contracts for Electronic Medical Records (Aquí en Español)

Social Security to be First Government Agency to Use Nationwide Health Information Network (Aquí en Español)

 
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Last reviewed or modified Monday Mar 01, 2010
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