Parties and candidates will inevitably stoke the health reform debate fires between now and November but the one aspect they all seem to agree on, at least publicly, is the raft of benefits health IT brings. But the survival of HIT's bipartisan nature will ultimately be a matter of federal funding -- and not all health-centric technologies are equal.

Social media and mobile health technologies facilitate communication more effectively than even before, but all the information and all the images, as useful as they are, might provoke mental health issues down the road.

The kit includes 5 of what ONC calls "practical resources" to help private and public rural health organizations exchange information.

This Week in Government Health IT ... HIE, HIT in a single act play, Vermont continues toward single-payer, reauthorized funding for public health, and the feds at HIMSS13.

Healthcare CIOs still wrestle with assessing risk versus risk assessment checklist for HIPAA, HITECH and meaningful use.

Farzad Mostashari, MD, talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about meaningful use, the progress toward a digital healthcare system, his disappointments (they're hard to find, he says, but he does find "a glimmer" of one) and what keeps him up at night.

Healthcare spending grew at its lowest during 2009 and 2010 as recession effects cascaded through healthcare sector.

The WEDI fall conference last week left a couple attendees scratching their heads, asking if CMS intends to make a HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 timeline announcement -- and with changes.

AHIMA, ICD-10, ICD-11, a DoD contractor in theater, NwHIN moves forward, and of course a Yeti.