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The post-mortem on the Santa Barbara RHIO shows the technology case was placed before the business case. Will the NHIN plan follow suit? Read Story | Read Comments
A new blog has debuted -- by the man -- in this case, a web log written with HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's very own fingers. Read Story | Read Comments
Safety processes can minimize impact of health care labor shortages ... Read Story | Read Comments
There will be many people who will argue with that headline, but in my opinion, Microsoft's launch today of its Common User Interface (CUI) toolset for healthcare applications marks a major step forward for the use and usability of those applications, and will come to be seen as the beginning of IT standardization in healthcare. Read Story | Read Comments
Alaska recently become the 50th state to make electronic prescribing a legal way for its pharmacies to do business. Given that e-prescribing is an application that could open the e-health floodgates, this is a significant landmark in the development of a national health information network. Read Story | Read Comments
Recent stories here in the US have talked about how the push for adoption of electronic health records has slowed, at least temporarily, while doctors ... Read Story | Read Comments
Former Bush health IT chief David Brailer talks about the impact of government and industry on health care IT and how 2007 will be seen as the beginning of a shakeout in the health IT market. Read Story | Read Comments
Most of the 2008 presidential candidates cite health IT as a key aspect of their plans to solve the health care crisis. But a lack of specifics raises questions about the ultimate worth – and sincerity – of their promises. Read Story | Read Comments
Cal Ludeman, Minnesota’s Human Services commissioner and chairman of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s Health Cabinet, explains how the state has managed its e-health expansion and what the future holds. Read Story | Read Comments
Leading Democratic party presidential candidates see large health IT investments as critical to health care streamlining but patient privacy advocates feel left out of their plans. Read Story | Read Comments
McCain, Giuliani, Romney focus on health IT’s impact on business first, access to health care second. Read Story | Read Comments
The HIT community is not optimistic of next administration’s ability to manage the minutiae of health IT reform. Read Story | Read Comments
After Katrina, New Orleans was supposed to become a civic health IT showcase. So two years later, why is a regional HIE stalled?
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With the team at Utah's Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. Brent James has built a public-minded hospital system that is quality-based, data-driven and IT-dependent.
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Institute of Medicine study of HIPAA impact on research gives one more twist to rising debate on health care and patient privacy
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"Health IT systems need to keep getting better for a long time -- that's why we raise the bar on certification." -- CCHIT chairman Mark Leavitt. Read Story | Read Comments
A year ago, reforms to Stark and anti-kickback rules promised to spur growth of EMR systems. But now that's unlikely, say experts. Read Story | Read Comments
Amid a flurry of policy pronouncements, it seemed as if someone had decided to declare last week “e-Prescribing Week” in Washington. Read Story | Read Comments
Predictions about the value of electronic medical records range from rosy optimism to those who believe physicians are being encouraged to board a train that is accelerating way too fast. Read Story | Read Comments
Executives eye future health care Internet but say government should mandate standards for interoperability now. Read Story | Read Comments
In this webcast, CEO Don Holmquest talks about CalRHIO's decision to operate as a health IT utility and its move to finish consensus-building and get to market with health IT services.
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Most big losses of health care data have stemmed from stolen laptops or misplaced disks. But as online theft becomes easy money, criminals will increasingly target health care systems as a rich source of identity and other data. Read Story | Read Comments
Scot Silverstein, an adjunct faculty member in health care informatics and IT at Drexel, is passionate about health IT but believes the current fervor for EMRs resembles the “irrational exuberance” of the dotcom era. In this GovHealthIT webcast, he explains why. Read Story | Read Comments
Despite their stake in the national health information network, consumers are often overlooked by health IT planners. But the health information community avoids end-users at its own risk.
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For states, privacy can be both a barrier and a requirement for setting successful policies for secure health information exchange. Read Story | Read Comments
States seem to have moved beyond thinking about whether health information exchanges are worthwhile to what to do to make them work. Read Story | Read Comments
As commercial health information portals ramp-up, they will rush to meet consumer demands and preferences. And while public sector exchanges now show few signs of being patient-focused, they will inevitably follow suit.
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Most health IT systems were built either in ignorance or defiance of both medical ethics and the very strong laws in every state requiring informed consent before sensitive personal health information is disclosed. Read Story | Read Comments
State public health agencies are often the only health care option for much of the nation’s poor and disadvantaged. And it is in this area that government investment in health IT will show some of its greatest returns and rewards. Read Story | Read Comments
The U.S. is facing a crisis in the quality and cost of our health care services. Luckily, we have a model to follow directly to our north in Canada. Read Story | Read Comments
Amidst a nursing shortage and slow progress on health IT adoption, frontline caregivers are calling on IT developers and policy-makers to re-shape clinical IT to their needs. Read Story | Read Comments
The military is finally beginning to extract knowledge from its massive database of electronic medical records Read Story | Read Comments
The Brooklyn Health Information Exchange aims to unite the health landscape of the borough, a captivating place to visit but a challenging arena in which to practice medicine. Read Story | Read Comments
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has made considerable progress in health IT. But for all of its accomplishments, ONC should postpone about half of its projects that are not "foundational," says Vanderbilt's Mark Frisse.
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The city’s home-grown Secure Messaging Application enables employees to send health-related files securely in a way that meets HIPAA standards and is intuitive to use. Read Story | Read Comments
Most state health IT investments should escape potential belt-tightening, but even modest health IT budgets could be sacrificed should state revenues remain anemic. Read Story | Read Comments
A new legal concept could prove to be the grease that keeps the wheels of the Nationwide Health Information Network rolling along friction-free.
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In the military’s IT-enabled clinics, an X-ray machine is a network appliance — and must be considered a potential threat to information security. Read Story | Read Comments
For the Health Privacy Project’s Deven McGraw, solving health IT’s privacy puzzle hits close to home. Read Story | Read Comments
In Chicago, DOD and VA are attempting the unprecedented: Building an integrated health services center that treats active-duty service members and veterans as one.
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Wisconsin has figured out how to prevent gaming of pay-for-performance-based Medicaid programs with an automated system that relies on a third-party to calculate results.
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Public health agencies are combining their geospatial information with third-party datasets to create new views into the health care landscape. Read Story | Read Comments
A national registry for death certificates could spell big savings for states -- if physicians would only use it. Read Story | Read Comments
The purpose of the federal mandate on data protection is not compliance, but to consider end-point security at the enterprise level. For instance, ask what needs to be protected: the health record on a device – or the device itself? Read Story | Read Comments
Spurred by government, industry, advocacy groups and children’s hospitals, pediatric care is emerging as a focus of health IT Read Story | Read Comments
Spurred by government, child health care providers and advocacy groups, pediatric care is emerging as a focus of health IT. Read Story | Read Comments
Social Security Administration project shows how health IT might be used to streamline agency requests for copies of clients’ medical records. Read Story | Read Comments
DOD and VA have tools for sharing nearly all primary care records, but achieving true data interoperability across the departmental divide remains elusive. Read Story | Read Comments
Managers say new joint program office will bring continuity of experience and management to protracted efforts to connect defense and veterans' health systems. Read Story | Read Comments
New NCVHS chairman Harry Reynolds says with the advent of “new and more complex” systems such as personal health records and the National Health Information Network, the Committee must confront health policy as a continuum, not a set of fixes. Read Story | Read Comments
Europe and U.S. offer contrasting strategies for ensuring the safety of new medical technology. As the E.U. tightens oversight, the U.S. seeks to tap the power of data surveillance. Read Story | Read Comments
Government-sponsored scientists and policy-makers have started down a path that may ultimately link genetic information and electronic health records. Read Story | Read Comments
At a time when many organizations are installing commercial EHRs, a dozen Michigan counties have adopted customized solutions that rely on a hosted approach, collaborative design, and open source mind-set. Read Story | Read Comments
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