October 7th, 2008
With the first phase of Medicare’s mandate for e-prescribing rolling out in January, healthcare IT leaders, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael...
August 11th, 2008
A rule book used by the federally supported Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology to test electronic health-record systems and the policy manual of...
August 4th, 2008
Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health “credit report” drawn...
August 2nd, 2008
It’s surprisingly easy for a patient in Florida to get numerous prescriptions of the same drug filled, sometimes in the same day.
Florida is among...
August 1st, 2008
Closing arguments are scheduled today in Brattleboro, Vt., capping a weeklong federal bench trial that pits the state of Vermont against the pharmaceutical industry...
July 23rd, 2008
How insurance companies dig up applicants’ prescriptions — and use them to deny coverage.
That prescription you just picked up at the drugstore could hurt...
June 5th, 2008
Imagine my surprise when, in the course of doing research for this story, I stumbled upon my own personal health information online.
There it was...
April 10th, 2008
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 23-16 Wednesday to pass a senate bill creating a prescription drug database in Alaska despite objections that it...
