August 29th, 2007
With the goal of maintaining greater transparency and the free flow of information in the nation’s healthcare system, three leading health information companies IMS...
June 28th, 2007
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has passed the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, which promises to modernize health care by...
April 23rd, 2007
Scores of bills passed but a few died – including one to block pharmacies from peddling doctors’ prescription information to data.m.ining firms – as...
March 19th, 2007
In the past year, lawmakers have struggled in their efforts to pass health information technology legislation. The Senate and House each passed a bill...
February 19th, 2007
Health IT remains a bipartisan issue, but with Democrats now in charge on Capitol Hill, the rush for national health IT legislation is on.
In...
October 28th, 2005
Health information technology legislation is swirling around Capitol Hill this week, and there’s no shortage of recommendations of how it should be done.
Privacy advocacy...
March 2nd, 2005
The Courier-Journal FRANKFORT, Ky. Kentucky will soon begin creating a statewide electronic health network allowing doctors, hospitals and pharmacies to share medical information about...
February 10th, 2005
As Reported By Senate Committee On:
Health & Long-Term Care, February 10, 2005
Title: An act relating to making certain provisions in the uniform health care...
