Privacy Must Take Precedence

April 18th, 2008

If Deborah Peel, M.D., has her way, there will be no national electronic health and medical record system without a guarantee of patient privacy...

Wanted: 40,000 More Health IT Professionals

April 17th, 2008

A new study by an Oregon Health & Science University expert says a 40 percent hike in IT workforce will be needed to move...

Recent Data Breaches Spark Criticism of Medical Privacy Laws

April 9th, 2008

In response to recent data breaches, privacy advocates are calling for changes to medical privacy rules to allow patients to control who can access...

Sponsors seek to move on health IT bill

April 3rd, 2008

The leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee joined representatives of the Business Roundtable in calling once again for passage of...

Senate and industry leaders push stagnant HIT bill

April 3rd, 2008

Senate and industry leaders met on Capitol Hill Wednesday to push a healthcare IT bill that came close to passing by special vote last...

Healthcare, Open Source, and Privacy

March 26th, 2008

Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs...

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. In a...

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...