An ONC report on four state-based consumer innovation pilots shows emerging models for HIE-based patient engagement, as well as the technical, legal and financial barriers similar projects are facing.

An increasing number of states are proposing bills that would turn to telehealth to brake existing barriers.

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

Reporting from CES, mHIMSS Editor Eric Wicklund explains that Reed Tuckson, MD, chief of medical affaris at UnitedHealth calls the industry a "runaway freight train of costs" that needs to be turned around.

Election uncertainty made holding off on a health insurance exchange or Medicaid expansion appealing to conservative Governors. And while many are still resisting, experts in the trenches believe that is on the verge of changing now that President Obama has been reelected.

Let's not get carried away celebrating the law's preservation. Resistance to ACA provisions within Congress and states remains strong, despite President Obama's reelection.

Amid continued concern about the risks of future hurricanes, the ONC is suggesting that Gulf states adopt recommendations for HIE disaster preparedness.

Not much is new, for one. Which is to say the GOP is twisting some matters decidedly against Obama and PPACA, but Government Health IT readers have heard them before.

National Government Services, Inc. announces it has been selected by TurningPoint Global Solutions, LLC, as a subcontractor for a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Program Integrity (CPI) contract to reduce fraud, waste, abuse, and errors in the Medicare program. CPI is implementing a National Fraud Prevention Program (NFPP) focused on prevention and detection that is integrated, risk-based, and measurable.