Tom Sullivan, Editor, Government Health IT
Tom Sullivan is the Editor of Government Health IT. Tom covers healthcare IT in all government settings, at the federal, state and local levels. He writes about industry trends and is responsible for overall coverage decisions. Follow Tom on Twitter @GovHITeditor.
WASHINGTON | Tom Sullivan | May 16, 2013 | 09:44 AM | Quality and Safety, Policy and Legislation
Marilyn Tavenner's confirmation as official administrator of CMS immediately drew positive reactions from nearly every corner of the industry and government, as several healthcare stakeholders reacted to the 91-7 landslide Senate vote that took place... More
WASHINGTON | Tom Sullivan | May 14, 2013 | 08:42 AM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records, Policy and Legislation
"It's systems that let ordinary people do extraordinary things," national coordinator for health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD said during a Health IT Policy Committee meeting talk that vice chair Paul Tang described immediately afterward as "... More
WASHINGTON | Tom Sullivan | May 8, 2013 | 08:58 AM | Electronic Health Records, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Continuing the upward trajectory of EHR reimbursements flowing out into the healthcare industry, CMS said on Tuesday morning that the total paid as of March's end is more than $13.7 billion. More
Tom Sullivan | May 3, 2013 | 14:58 PM | Electronic Health Records
As the healthcare industry moves to EHRs, the medical record has essentially been reduced to a tool for billing, compliance and litigation that also has a sustained negative impact on doctors' productivity, according to Steven J. Stack, MD, chair of the... More
Tom Sullivan | May 1, 2013 | 09:53 AM | Mobile/Wireless, Telehealth, Policy and Legislation
Can the current regulatory structure in place within the federal government keep pace with health IT without inhibiting innovation? A difficult question to answer, indeed, particularly in light of what National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, calls a... More
Tom Sullivan | April 30, 2013 | 09:25 AM | Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Policy and Legislation
Only 2 percent of state and local governments have a complete big data strategy. That's despite one in three surveyed agencies indicating that their data set has grown too big to analyze with the current processes and technologies in place, according to... More
Tom Sullivan | April 28, 2013 | 00:00 AM | Electronic Health Records
As the funding for ONC’s HIT Workforce Development Program draws to a close the office – and a significant chunk of participating colleges – are looking at ways to advance the curriculum, as well as strengthen ties to vendors and hospitals. More
WASHINGTON | Tom Sullivan | April 25, 2013 | 09:43 AM | Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange (HIE), Policy and Legislation
Evoking the "network of networks" notion, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has unwrapped a pair of funding initiatives designed to ratchet up large-scale comparative effectiveness research with patients at the center. More
Tom Sullivan | April 19, 2013 | 10:16 AM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records, Policy and Legislation
Delivering what founder and president Jason Grumet described as "one of the most challenging projects we've undertaken," the Bipartisan Policy Center on Thursday put forth what it hopes will be "a viable political plan to reign in the... More
CHANTILLY, VA | Tom Sullivan | April 15, 2013 | 10:12 AM | Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange (HIE), Cloud Computing
Among America's dichotomies: The country is widely-viewed as a leader in IT, yet the healthcare industry is notoriously perceived as lagging others in tech adoption. But is it really? To find out, Healthcare IT News Contributing Editor Tom Sullivan spoke... More
Tom Sullivan | April 15, 2013 | 00:00 AM | Electronic Health Records
When Bob Brown and Steven Waldren, MD, undertook a research project for AHRQ they encountered, very early on, a lack of clear definitions regarding technical functions that various care settings need information technologies to perform. Among the reasons: At... More
WASHINGTON | Tom Sullivan | March 22, 2013 | 09:56 AM | Business Intelligence, Policy and Legislation
There's little question that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA, has demonstrable benefits already -- even if, as a Kaiser Poll found this week, Americans still don't understand them. What's less clear is how the ACA will... More
