The House Ways and Means Health subcommittee on Wednesday voted 8 to 5 along party lines to approve legislation that would promote healthcare IT adoption, improving chances that a healthcare IT bill c...
The Senate last week approved a reserve fund for healthcare information technology as part of its fiscal year 2007 budget resolution. The move would allow Congress to pass a healthcare IT bill this ye...
As 2005 draws to a close, it's worth taking stock of healthcare information technology's status on and off Capitol Hill. This was the year lawmakers from both parties crossed traditional political lin...
It's no small feat that, in a year of deep cuts to many healthcare programs in the federal budget, initiatives that promote the use of electronic medical records and other information technology...
It doesn't take a Washington insider to know that the annual spending bills that Congress approves are where the rubber meets the road, where the photo ops end and where the buck, literally,...
The country's budget bill, which passed the Senate Dec. 21 in a 51-50 vote, freezes for one year the anticipated 4.4 percent Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians that had been slated to take...
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has introduced the Wired for Healthcare Quality Act, improving chances for a healthcare IT bill to pass in Congress this year. The Senate passed an identical bill late las...
The Senate late Wednesday night agreed to pass the fiscal year 2006 Labor-HHS appropriations bill on the condition that the House approves a modified defense spending bill. Under the conference report...
The country's budget bill, which passed the Senate today in a 51-50 vote, freezes the anticipated 4.4 percent Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians that had been slated to take effect in Jan...
Lawmakers returning to Congress in early December will again take up a spending bill for the departments of Labor, Education and HHS after the House earlier this month failed to approve a $142.5 billi...
The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved bipartisan healthcare IT legislation that promotes the adoption of electronic health records through standards, calls for incentives for providers to implem...
The Senate on Thursday approved the fiscal year 2006 appropriations bill for HHS and the departments of Labor and Education, providing $42.5 million in funding for the Office of the National Coordinat...
Prospects for passage of a robust healthcare IT bill appear dim as Congress faces cuts to Medicaid and Medicare spending and grapples with the cost of paying for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, co...
Politicians, government leaders and the IT community quickly renewed the call for the healthcare system to get wired after Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans under water and ravaged the Gulf Coast....
Despite cries from federal officials who say disasters such as Hurricane Katrina highlight the need for the nation to have a healthcare IT infrastructure, it's unclear whether Congress will approve th...
Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina highlight the need to move away from a paper-based system of storing medical records, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Monday.Clinto...
Lawmakers returning to Congress in September will continue a push for healthcare information technology legislation as a way to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient care....
Information technology's use in healthcare could save the system billions of dollars and improve patient care, but misaligned financial incentives, the cost of the technology and a lack of agreement o...
By the time you read this column, Washington, D.C., will be a ghost town, as most of official Washington leaves the city for the August congressional recess. But the lead-up to the lazier days of sum...
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) is crafting healthcare IT legislation, bolstering the chances for Congress to pass a bill aimed at encouraging widespread use of technology in healthcare....
