October 18th, 2007
Lawmakers, corporations and activists joined today to urge Congress to protect patients’ medical privacy rights. Activists say such rights are not adequately protected, especially...
October 5th, 2007
After the recent flurry of announcements, speeches and presentations focused on the major presidential candidates’ health care proposals it seems clear that health IT...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
