In the state with our nation's shortest life-expectancy, all the Republican candidates face something of a quandary: How to entice voters with talk of cutting healthcare reform and services in a land ranking low in care quality measures.
National political pundits seem to have little to nothing to say about Oklahoma. They save the lion's share of punditry for Ohio, as the nation inched its way to Super Tuesday.
Supporters and opponents were in agreement that the Supreme Court should rule on the case, rather than pushing it off based on the Anti-Injunction Act. And the discourse was mostly civil, except for one instance.
President Barack Obama and GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to strike the fine balance of containing costs while deciding where they stand on Medicare expansion, as Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania displays.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has named Republican guru, life sciences consultant and telemedicine advocate Michael Wolf to lead the state health department, with long-term nursing care regulation likely to be one large area of focus.
Lee Kim, president-elect of the Western Pennsylvania HIMSS chapter, breaks down what health organizations need to consider before selecting a cloud-based vendor.
Trying what it calls a different approach, AlliedHIE CEO Kelly Lewis tells of trying to identify communications and exchange needs, then trying to solve those problems.
With a touch of irony, one of the states determined to over turn President Obama's health reform law "as a matter of liberty" is, in an odd way, perhaps helping the President's reelection bid.
Arizona used $9 million in federal funding toward an HIX. But that was before it decided not to build its own marketplace. At least 7 other states have made similar decisions after spending federal grants. Here's where that money went.
With a $3.2 million grant from a program launched by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Holy Spirit Health System is renovating an old strip mall building for an integrated data center.
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AHA, AMA, other industry associations warn that as many as 766,000 healthcare jobs could be lost by 2021 if the automatic federal budget cuts to Medicare and Medicaid take hold in January.
After the storm one CIO says that HIE is not really a focus when treating patients during a disaster, while another official explains that not having gone live with their EHR might actually have been a "blessing in disguise" for treating patients during a power outage.