RTI report includes controversial EHR requirement
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...
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Editorial: Scrap the national IT plan
July 12th, 2007
It should be clear by now that unless the federal government mandates a single healthcare information technology platform for all healthcare providers and heavily...
Legislation calls for healthcare IT trusts
July 11th, 2007
A bill introduced in the House today would create healthcare information technology trusts. Rep. Dennis Moore, a Democrat who represents the Third District in...
New Dem of the Week: Sheldon Whitehouse
July 5th, 2007
Soaring costs are pushing health care beyond the reach of many ordinary Americans. The typical family health insurance policy now costs more than a...
Patient control a must
July 1st, 2007
It’s really atrocious that these three organizations would even consider supporting HIT legislation without patient control of access to...
Health IT bill headed for Senate action
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...
Lawmakers: Medicare’s cost crisis starving health IT
June 22nd, 2007
The prognosis is simple for a health care system that is hemorrhaging money: Submit to rehabilitation in the form of widespread adoption of information...
Kolodner unveils AHIC’s privacy policy framework
June 14th, 2007
Robert Kolodner, the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, revealed at a meeting of a key...
Groups unite to promote healthcare IT
June 14th, 2007
Three major U.S. advocacy organizations united Wednesday to endorse and deliver five principles for healthcare information technology legislation to Congress.
In a joint statement, AARP,...
VA sets aside $20 million to handle latest data breach
June 14th, 2007
The Veterans Affairs Department has set aside more than $20 million to respond to its latest data breach, the agency’s top technology officer said...