January 12th, 2009
A panel of health industry experts urged Congress Monday to include health information technology measures in the economic stimulus package widely expected to become...
January 4th, 2009
In his Dec. 22 op-ed, “Connecting the Medical Dots,” Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt made some good points about the need for...
December 24th, 2008
The multi-billion-dollar economic stimulus plan renews patient privacy issue debate.
The plan to add health information technology to the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package legislators are...
December 22nd, 2008
Congress is considering adding money for health information technology to January’s stimulus package.
Doing so could spur a critical mass of the nation’s doctors to...
December 18th, 2008
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D- RI), co-chairman of the 21st Century Health Care Caucus, on Wednesday said he is optimistic that legislation would be passed...
December 10th, 2008
State legislators introduced more than 370 bills to boost healthcare information technology over an 18-month period in 2007 and 2008, with more than a...
December 5th, 2008
BCBS proposes to Obama transition team a 5 point plan for employer based health IT system.
BCBS contends that President-elect Obama’s plan to build reform...
December 4th, 2008
Senators Enzi and Kennedy discuss legislation linking nationwide electronic data base to economic stimulus.
An aide to Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ranking member Michael...
November 20th, 2008
Most people believe the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protects the privacy of health information.
Unfortunately, that is a myth....
October 20th, 2008
It’s been a decade since federal legislation called for the creation of a unique patient identifier — a number carried by each American linking...
