March/April 2011 Features

March 31, 2011

Meaningful to the community

Mid-Columbia Medical Center is a community hospital like many others in a small city serving a semi-rural area, though natives would argue the bucolic region in north-central Oregon along the Columbia River -- bulging with cherry orchards and graced by the neighboring magnificence of Mount Hood -- is not like other places.
March 31, 2011

Time to feel the impact of IT at ground level

The locus of health IT efforts has been in Washington so long—in Congress, at Health & Human Services, in long meetings of policy and standards committees— that you might not notice the scene subtly shifting to the nation's physician offices and hospital corridors and out to the surrounding communities.
February 28, 2011

FDA offers simpler path for new medical devices

Medical Device Innovation Initiative will provide a more predictable path to approval to attract innovation, FDA says.
February 28, 2011

HHS posts most wanted healthcare fraudsters

HHS puts attention on the first-ever list of individuals sought for defrauding federal healthcare programs and fleeing with the money.