As New York lawmakers start sorting out next year's budget, the state Department of Health has outlined its proposal for meeting the state's Medicaid spending cap. With a new web-based Medicaid information system, the agency is focusing on incentivizing better primary-care and streamlining administration.

The Green Mountain Care Board is testing several payment models while some plans of the transition are still being ironed out.

Care coordination, and its linkage to payments and value, is overarching motivation for health information exchange, Mostashari said at HIE hearing.

A bill that passed the House in January would sustain funding for several public health preparedness programs in the areas of bioterrorism, infectious disease and natural disaster public health management.

Ideas for addressing Medicare inefficiencies can be found at the ground level, according to panelists at a policy summit held this week.

"The HIT sector really took off in 2012," according to the author of a new report finding that the realm more than doubled in investment activity over 2011.

AHRQ will examine behavioral and organizational factors and their impact on health IT and workflow redesign at six practices moving to patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model.

Heightened competition for healthcare talent will trigger higher compensation, according to a new report, and employers are also stepping up retention efforts.

From Carolyn Clancy to Farzad Mostashari, with a former U.S. President topping it all off, federal health IT experts and agency heads will be presenting at the annual HIMSS conference in New Orleans come March.

In what it considers a model for the nation, Washington State's Health Care Authority shares best practices from its 'ER is for Emergencies' program.

The agency is seeking individuals to participate in two workgroups focusing on hospital inpatient administrative metrics.

HIE research aims to help with technical and business skills for query-based exchange, push notification and subscription services, provider directories, master data management and consumer engagement.

The state's health department hopes to make telemedicine clinics standard across Georgia in the next few years.

Group to focus creating a single point of coordination between stakeholders and those working to improve quality, HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe says.

The ONC and NIH are working the EU health agencies to develop international interoperability standards, with the goal of increasing patient access to personal health information globally.

Participants in first ONC listening session were concerned about variations in patient data policies among networks, assuring patient identification, and the need for a framework for trust.

The Office of Civil Rights is "putting the industry on notice" of its intent to continue ratcheting up compliance audits in 2013.

Georgia congressman releases draft proposed legislation that guides how mobile applications, including mHealth apps, collect personal data.

IOM advises that VA should make better use of its EHR and clinical teams to better treat and coordinate care for veterans with multi-symptom chronic conditions.

The Kaiser Family Foundation's annual survey of state Medicaid programs shows progress on interoperability and states mostly preparing to comply with the ACA's IT requirements, even if some are rejecting Medicaid expansion.