While Karl Rove maintains that the ACA's future is unsettled, healthcare experts are predicting slow but consistent progress. Does the Obama administration have time enough to guarantee the law long-term?

Taking into account the need for medical devices to share data, WHI published a report determining that such interoperability could save the industry as much as $30 billion.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Tuesday kicked off the “Health Information Technologies” hearing series to discuss the critical role of technology in the health care industry and how federal regulations and taxes could impact patients, hinder innovation, and increase costs for consumers.

As Robert H. Lorsch, MMRGlobal CEO, described the deal, "healthcare professionals nationwide can offer a PHR and receive ongoing residual income to help offset the high cost of HIPAA compliance and requirements of Stage 2 Meaningful Use under HITECH starting in January 2014."

No easy answers this week on patient engagement, EHR usability, mobile health questions.

Florida and others are saying they won't penalize insurance companies that violate new health law consumer protections.

A project linking patients, caregivers and Alzheimer's research centers won the Department's third annual innovation award, as Secretary Sibelius and a Google HR guru talked about the need for collaboration in such a large organization.

Payers and providers are moving in the direction of more personalized patient care, and these five technologies are fueling that change.

Bob Brown and Steven Waldren, MD, outline the goals and the need for their joint effort, the Cure Project. The gist: Harness the healthcare community to define what IT functions various care settings need to the benefit of both providers and vendors. Just don't get hung up on what the technologies are called.