Government & Policy

HHS has tapped an insurance industry veteran who managed one of the few well-functioning state exchanges during the initial enrollment period to lead the federal insurance marketplace.

Will the VA use its new $16 billion in IT funding to lead it, in accordance with DoD, in the right direction?

U.S. chief technology officer Todd Park is reportedly packing up to head back West -- Silicon Valley, specifically.

Comments from the Premier healthcare alliance this week are just the latest in a flood of opinions and wish lists inundating Capitol Hill, after two senators asked for input on interoperability and data sharing.

Getting to the new world of doctors treating patient populations effectively requires new technologies and a substantive culture shift.

Government Health IT spoke with IBM's Dan Pelino about potential synergies among the three companies, and what that may or may not mean going forward.

As thousands of physician practice managers, hospital CIOs and technology vendors gathered to discuss meaningful use, interoperability and ICD-10 at the annual Allscripts Client Experience users' meeting, a featured speaker encouraged them to keep their eye on the real prize: population health management.

Even as it led to a delay of ICD-10, another component in the Protecting Access to Medicare Act could go a long way toward accelerating the development and access routes of new diagnostic tests.

“We will not be attesting to meaningful use Stage 2 in 2014,” Marc Probst, chief information officer of Intermountain, told Healthcare IT News. “And frankly, most of my peers are not as well.”

In a move that's being lauded by mobile health innovators, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released dozens of mHealth medical devices from the requirements of added regulation.