The range of managed care policies states have adopted in Medicaid modernization plans spotlight a variety of options that will be available for other states expanding eligibility under the ACA, but sound IT is still a common concern.

Data breaches are a fact of life. That's exactly why managing risk is so critical to healthcare organizations' ongoing privacy and security efforts.

The missing ingredient in many PHI privacy and security efforts? The patient. Rick Kam offers suggestions on how to change that.

Almost 75 percent of respondents who purchase insurance on their own say they will shop for coverage in a state health insurance exchange.

Friday deadline passes and states largely bypass the option to work with the federal government in setting up new online health insurance marketplaces that open for business Oct. 1.

Medical researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine argue that prioritizing, or triaging, critical care in the ICU has been underused, suggesting that ICU clinical support software could go a long way to more efficient care.

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.

Through a pact with EHR vendor PCE Systems, the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services enabled sub-state HIEs to hook health networks with behavioral health and substance abuse treatment organizations.

With the creation of a new data scientist advisor, the National Institutes of Health is putting a new focus on IT amid the surging growth of EHR, genomic and molecular data.