Bernie Monegain
The American Medical Association will convene its five-day annual meeting here on June 13 with a policy-filled agenda that includes discussion of the healthcare IT provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Fixing the nation's broken healthcare system cannot wait, President Obama said Saturday in his weekly address. The government could pay for reform now, he said, by eliminating waste and fraud and taking on key causes of rising costs.
Even as the healthcare IT industry awaits the official definition of "meaningful use" from the federal government, a new report from KLAS examines which electronic medical record products should fit that description.
The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) has garnered support from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) for the alliance's efforts to deliver thousands of sustainable diagnostic digital imaging systems to developing communities around the world.
A new survey from Microsoft Corp. shows that Americans want their doctors and their health plans to use technology to help them become healthier.
The market for electronic medical record data transfer equipment and applications, valued at $575 million in 2008, is forecast to reach $1.6 billion in 2013, according to a study by research firm Kalorama Information.
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association and lobbying group for the insurance companies, launches its annual conference AHIP Institute at the San Diego Convention Center Wednesday. Healthcare reform and healthcare IT are expected to be center stage. Outside, expect protesters for the second year running.
As President Barack Obama prepared to meet with Congressional Democrats Tuesday to discuss healthcare reform, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report that highlights both the upside and the downside of technology.
With IT budgets squeezed, physician practices and hospitals are looking to IT vendors for ways to keep their technology projects on track - but those vendors are offering few creative solutions, according to a new report from KLAS.
Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.