April 15, 2013
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 with Medicomp Systems CEO David Lareau, who travels the globe and meets with healthcare customers in other nations.
March 07, 2013
Interoperability and exchange are perhaps the most frequently spoken words at this year's HIMSS13 conference. Yet they are only two among the many issues facing national coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, this week.
March 04, 2013
Officials at The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board announced Monday afternoon that bacteriological test results confirmed city water is now safe to drink after previously issuing a water boil alert lasting some 30 hours.
December 07, 2012
Even though evidence suggests that healthcare records are more valuable to crooks than financial records, three out of five healthcare organizations are not allocating enough resources to their protect patient data. Ironically, a big reason is that the industry has no way to place a value on that information.
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November 13, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the deadline for states to declare their plans for a state-based health insurance exchange for one more month to accommodate many governors who were waiting until the election outcome to decide whether to move ahead.
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November 13, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the deadline for states to declare their plans for a state-based health insurance exchange for one more month to accommodate many governors who were waiting until the election outcome to decide whether to move ahead.
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November 07, 2012
Obamacare has survived both a Supreme Court challenge and now Mitt Romney's promise to "repeal and replace." But very real questions remain about its future, since it's as unpopular as ever in some states. Questions about federal funding of health IT are also still lingering.
November 06, 2012
Health information exchange can be a platform on which innovators build the tools that providers, public health departments and patients need - and, in so doing, plug holes in the marketplace, according to David Whitlinger, executive director of New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC).
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November 06, 2012
Marking a bridge's beginning, ONC has made it official: eHealth Exchange is standing on its own as a non-federal, nonprofit entity. ONC announced the new status on Oct. 11.
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October 16, 2012
Health information exchange can be a platform on which innovators build the tools that providers, public health departments and patients need -- and, in so doing, plug holes in the marketplace, according to David Whitlinger, executive director of New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC).
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October 12, 2012
Medicare and Social Security composed one of the nine segments in Thursday's night's fiery debate between Vice President Joe Biden and challenger Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The discussion had far more feist than the first presidential debate, held one week ago, on every topic, not just on healthcare.
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October 11, 2012
Marking a bridge's beginning, ONC on Thursday made it official: eHealth Exchange, a new name for NwHIN, is standing on its own as a non-federal, non-profit entity.
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October 05, 2012
Timing being everything and all, the four Republican congressmen who on Oct. 4 sent a letter asking HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to stop distributing meaningful use incentives probably should have attended the Oct. 3 Bipartisan Policy Center event, instead.
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October 04, 2012
Among the pods of debate in Denver last night, the issue of healthcare was every bit as fiery as the oft-considered more popular economy, jobs and the widely-divisive role of government.
October 02, 2012
It's a joke without a punch line: Both Republican and Democratic national party platforms make barely any mention of health IT.
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September 10, 2012
While there's plenty of attention to healthcare topics in both the Republican and Democratic national party platforms, there is only a passing reference to healthcare information technology in each.
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August 27, 2012
The new ICD-10 deadline of October 1, 2014 is a mere two years away. That doesn't leave a lot of time for healthcare organizations to meet the mandate, particularly those who have not yet even started the conversion. One expert offers some tips for making smart use of the extra year.
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August 24, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services' decision to stick with a one-year delay in the ICD-10 compliance deadline both "maintains the value of work already done" and makes it easier for project leaders to convince CFOs to keep funding flowing for the switchover.
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July 31, 2012
The folks behind CONNECT, based on feedback from community members going through ONC onboarding, have made version 3.3.1 available.
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July 17, 2012
Healthcare pays more than any other industry for information technology, according to a new study, which finds that providers fork over an average of 17 percent more to meet their technology needs than do organizations from 29 other industries surveyed.
