Mary Mosquera
Funds to help states build insurance exchanges to enroll people qualifying for Medicaid, children's health and other reduced cost plans.
CMS wants industry help to come up with technical descriptions to ease reporting of electronic quality measures.
National coordinator seeks public comment for upcoming discussion on personal health record privacy and security.
Health IT Policy Committee panel aims to control proliferation of measures while broadening their usefulness.
Health IT policymakers are relying on federal healthcare agencies to pilot new standards and uses of the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network.
Health IT vendors should make sure they market and sell their products and services to health care providers in minority communities to avoid a new form of "digital divide" that could leave low income areas without the benefit of electronic health records
Federally funded "beacon" communities are tackling the problem of hospital readmissions and other tough health care challenges by testing the effectiveness of multiple treatment strategies simultaneously instead of taking the traditional approach of testing one treatment at a time, according to the program's director.
HRSA releases community clinic finder while DOD launches mobile app to track service members emotional health after deployment.
Health & Human Services invites states to take innovative approaches to building e-commerce systems for health insurance shoppers.
The Centers Medicare and Medicaid Services prepares to launch Web site to help consumers shop for physicians.