Amid a fifth IT revolution and the rise of mobile health, the federal government is working to reform the U.S. healthcare market while digitizing medicine, doing so slowly but steadily.

The future of healthcare depends on data and the technologies to make use of it, experts said at the Government Health IT Conference last week. And while it won't happen overnight, a fistful of current trends are driving the industry in that direction.

The wave of connected microprocessors cresting in many industries is among the factors changing healthcare. John Glaser envisions an industry that looks different from the way it does today.

The ONC's director of the Office of Science and Technology told the Government Health IT Conference to consider how technical standards can help solve future healthcare challenges, such as boosting EHR use in clinical research.

Farzad Mostashari told the Government Health IT Conference that the balance of regulatory and market-based solutions to health IT standards and process improvement is a work in progress, but making inroads.

At the Government Health IT Conference, executive vice president Carla Smith foretells a new offering HIMSS plans to launch next month that measures the ROI of health IT investments, considering more components than just the financial.

Experts driving next-gen healthcare in America will meet in the Nation's Capital next week. Here's a look at the technologies, policies and progress they'll be talking about.

What with AHA, AMA, CHIME and HIMSS effectively leading the charge, it should be no surprise that several other industry association have joined the cacophony of public commenters.

Robust data exchange, more closely aligned incentives and outcomes, wider use of EHRs among the Bipartisan Policy Center's recommendations for health IT.