Paul McCloskey

The Office of the National Coordinator deserves credit for managing to pull together, in less than two years and with a small but apparently tireless staff, a plan for rolling out a system of electronic health information sharing across the country.

This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care.

This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care applications.

Policy team to base recommendations on three health information exchange models, which drew criticism from some panel members.

Should the federal government get involved in the design of electronic healthcare record systems? The Office of the National Coordinator has billions of dollars riding on EHR usability.

Veterans Affairs takes measures to tighten control of contractor-held veterans' information, says CIO Baker.

In the midst of all the policy-making surrounding the administration's health IT incentive plan, it's possible to lose sight of the people it was designed to benefit. There are millions of potential meaningful users of health IT of course, but few whose stories are more compelling than two we touch-on in the current issue of Government Health IT.

Reps. Kennedy and Murphy introduce bill to make behavioral health providers eligible for health IT incentives.

'Connect' software update will offer cloud-based options for setting up health information exchange services.

The Office of Management and Budget and the Health and Human Services Department late last month called for the creation of a government-wide task force to help coordinate health IT planning among federal agencies.