Tom Sullivan

The two agencies are building out their mobile health portfolios, at times together and at times individually, with the aim of improving patient care.

With six months and counting until the compliance deadline, participants lagging and blaming fingers pointing in every direction, the healthcare industry isn't ready for HIPAA 5010. And that doesn't bode well for ICD-10, either.

Despite the criticism waged against the proposed ACO rules, there's an appetite in healthcare to rethink the delivery system – but only if CMS eases the measures.

Entwined in a blame game, few health entities have their HIPAA 5010 conversion underway, despite the looming deadline.

Even doctors who have purchased and successfully implemented electronic health record systems did not always know what they were buying until they were up and running, ONC director Farzad Mostashari, MD, told an audience June 15 at the Government Health IT Conference in the nation's capital.

Despite the growing number of EHRs, classic causes of market failure persist.

Despite disappointments, the cloud model promises "hope beyond the hype."

ONC says it is building a draft governance document to ultimately enable more providers to join the Nationwide Health Information Network.

DoD/VA manager of enterprise architecture Doug Felton discusses mediating processes and practices between the departments, and why the agencies are now aligned for a project such as the joint EHR.

PricewaterhouseCooper's Bruce Henderson explains why proposed regulations for an accountable care organization are so "onerous and grinding."