‘Meaningful use’ criteria released
December 30th, 2009
Modern Healthcare — HHS issued two sets of much-anticipated federal regulations that significantly further the government’s healthcare information technology adoption...
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Healthcare moving to Cloud Computing
August 15th, 2009
Joe Conn looks more deeply into the problems of ‘cloud’ computing for the storage, exchange, and analysis of health data. See his article...
New Epidemic Fears: Hackers
August 4th, 2009
The government is committing billions of dollars for technology systems that help healthcare providers share information. But making patient data more accessible...
Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
June 22nd, 2009
The right to privacy conflicts with rationing and regulation.
Is a government-dominated health-care system unconstitutional? A strong case can be made for that proposition, based...
But privacy is ALREADY gone!
June 22nd, 2009
Refer to Wall Street Journal article: Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
The authors fear that Americans’ health privacy rights will be eliminated by health reform...
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 16th, 2009
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform: How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 16th, 2009
How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records
When President Obama won approval for his $787 billion stimulus...
Reducing Cost or Care? Orszag on HIT
May 4th, 2009
Fascinating ‘insider’ article on the budget process and the Orzag/Obama plan to reduce healthcare costs by building a health IT system ‘wired’ for data...
Can Peter Orszag keep the President’s political goals economically viable?
May 4th, 2009
Orszag can match Lawrence Summers in policy expertise, and has proved to be a subtle and persistent political player.
…The deficit spectre has loomed over...
Data Mining Case Heads to the Supreme Court
March 20th, 2009
Two major publishers of health care data filed a petition Friday at the Supreme Court, raising cutting-edge questions about whether increasingly widespread...