December 4th, 2007
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part...
October 30th, 2007
Failures of electronic medical-record systems are part of the lore of healthcare information technology.
Not surprisingly, a recently released survey of healthcare IT use conducted...
October 1st, 2007
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation-10/01/07-Information technology (IT) is a major driver of innovation and economic growth.1 Health IT promises to revolutionize health care...
August 31st, 2007
Getting physicians to use an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is not an easy task. Getting them to fork over thousands of dollars for one...
August 30th, 2007
In a recent editorial , Modern Healthcare argues that the current national health information technology (IT) efforts should be abandoned since they can’t succeed...
August 24th, 2007
The RTI International recommendations got split reviews from Don Schoen, president and chief executive officer of MediNotes, a West Des Moines, Iowa, developer of...
August 24th, 2007
Nearly nine out of 10 survey respondents said that electronic health records offered by health insurers should have appropriate privacy and security features, according...
August 23rd, 2007
Reactions varied widely between technology vendors, privacy advocates and government and clinical IT leaders questioned about a federally sponsored study that calls for re-engineering...
August 17th, 2007
Last April when a network technician working for Bellevue, Wash.-based Web content-management company Verus failed to set up a firewall properly as part of...
August 14th, 2007
he Bush administration has signed off on 14 recommendations in a federally funded report by RTI International on how to use electronic health-record systems...
