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The Health IT Privacy and Security Tiger team laid out its agenda July 6 for addressing some of the more urgent health information privacy policy gaps confronting federal policymakers before the meaningful use plan goes into effect next year.
Visionary or worst choice? President Obama's recess appointment of Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is drawing praise from healthcare IT leaders across the country even as his detractors paint him as a champion for socialism and healthcare rationing.
E-mail use between patients with diabetes and hypertension and their doctors resulted in improved quality of care scores, according to a study of patients in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region.
Municipal integrated delivery system triples number of referrals via health information exchange system.
A selection of recent emails-to-the-editor on matters large and small to the government health IT community.
When President Obama announced on July 2 a $795 million government program to develop broadband access in rural parts of the country, it meant an additional 5,000 jobs up front, he said.
VHA Inc., a healthcare network that serves more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 28,000 non-acute care providers nationwide, has contracted with athenahealth to offer its physician practices access to the company's full suite of Web-based electronic health record, practice management, and patient communication services.
President Obama is expected on Wednesday to put Donald Berwick, MD, at the helm of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services while Congress is in recess.
A new KLAS report, which examines the health information exchange purchase plans of nearly 100 healthcare organizations, has found that, despite a crowded market, very few companies so far have consistently earned the confidence of providers.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced a $250,000 settlement - the first of its kind in the country - with healthcare insurer Health Net and its affiliates over health data security breaches.