A lame duck Congress would probably look for cuts in the health care program for seniors and the disabled as it seeks to find ways to curb federal spending.
Associate Editor Anthony Brino on the intersection of genomics, health information exchange and more personalized medicine. Hint: A phone reading hearts rates and other vital signs.
It’s a given, nowadays, that EHRs are intended to transform the healthcare sector. But what’s increasingly interesting to us is how new models of healthcare delivery are beginning to change our approach to EHRs, and to health IT in general.
A grant program is trying to help doctors, clinics and hospitals in rural California link to HIEs, so patients being referred for specialized care in urban areas can have their medical history follow them.
The Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency has awarded the nine year, $40 million contract to Acuo Technologies, for a universal clinical platform acting as a vendor neutral archive for enterprise patient imaging logistics.
The health care community has a tough job on its hands: cleaning up a chaotic system for processing health claims that adds $210 billion annually in unnecessary costs.
The VA's VistA Imaging system had its beginnings in a government worker's basement home office. Now it straddles three departments and hundreds of clinical offices.
The Idaho Health Data Exchange continues signing up new providers and vendors, with the intent to help them become accountable care organizations, achieve stage 2 of meaningful use and, ultimately, comply with broader measures in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.