Federal healthcare IT funding cut short
December 21st, 2007
Federal efforts to advance healthcare IT will have to be made on half the amount President Bush hoped to get for next year.
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Mixed reviews for Leavitt’s IT statement
December 4th, 2007
Not surprisingly, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Chicago-based trade group for healthcare information technology developers and users, supports the call yesterday...
HHS urges Congress to include IT adoption in physician payment fix bill
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...
Top newsmakers: Making good on visions deployed in 2007
December 1st, 2007
They dominated the headlines and made bold announcements that created huge impacts in the healthcare industry and across America.
Marquee names topped the results in...
Data-miners unite in Maine to block ‘opt-out’ Rx law
November 20th, 2007
The prescription drug data-mining industry opened yet another legal battlefront, this time in Maine, where no less than six firms are involved...
Certification advancing at faster rate than last year
November 15th, 2007
Certification of healthcare information technology is advancing at a faster rate than last year, according to Mark Leavitt, chair of the Certification Commission for...
Privacy concerns remain barrier to health information exchanges
November 7th, 2007
A new report on health information exchange says state public-private health information exchange organizations are making progress in some areas, but the question of...
Ethics, respect key to privacy – then IT
November 1st, 2007
It’s been a month abuzz with George Clooney. You know who he is the I’m-not-a doctor-but-I-used-to-play-one-on-TV guy. He was pre-McDreamy handsome as Dr. Doug...
Privacy goes Public
November 1st, 2007
When it comes to advancing healthcare IT you’re more likely to hear about standards, interoperability, sustainability and affordability before you’ll hear about privacy. Most...
Next president faces skeptical HIT crowd
October 30th, 2007
Now that the presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, have taken their first shots at defining their ideas for health care and the role...