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Distant thunder rumbles across the HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 horizon. That's the sound of cloud computing services gliding toward healthcare organizations.

Case managers are learning to "speak IT." As the traditional hub of information shared by all healthcare team members, case managers already act as gatekeepers and facilitators of communication and coordination.

Another misguided, uninformed EHR vendor will discount the price of EHR software for doctors willing to sell patient data! According to CEO Jonathan Bush, "Athena might be able to halve the amount that physicians pay to use its EHR."

With electronic patient records, the potential for privacy violations expands a thousand-fold. First, data can be accessed anywhere, not just on the physical premises. As a result, remote access makes snooping employees bolder.

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.

Jonathan Bush, CEO of Athenahealth, said that the federal stimulus funds for EHR adoption give an unfair advantage for the traditional software license companies. He has a point up to a certain point.

Amid an economy still recovering from a deep recession, students participating in the University of California San Diego Extension Health Information Technology Program are very lucky.

In the era of healthcare reform, care coordination is gaining attention as a tangible way to improve the delivery of care resources.

Across the nation, in communities large and small, health information technology innovators are boldly leading the way toward the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs).

At a time when industry bodies and consultancies are trying to figure out how providers and payers can best transform existing ICD-9 data into the imminent ICD-10 code schemes, and the word “crosswalk” keeps being batted around, Dennis Winkler at Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan is the curious case of an ICD-10 crosswalk contrarian, believing he's found a better path. Winkler, it seems, just might be onto something that appears revolutionary but in practice is not.