Government & Policy

It’s hard to tap the brakes – even ever so slightly – to an initiative like the government’s meaningful use program.

Study shows that patients treated via telehealth technologies did as well as those who were physically present in a medical center.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking comments on approaches that will enable providers and other healthcare entities to obtain and manage digital certificates that are cross-certified with the Federal Bridge.

A limited number of users are testing the graphical user interface at DOD's and VA's medical centers in Honolulu, with North Chicago to start a GUI pilot during the summer.

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

Group intends to "provide a robust view of the rapidly evolving HIT ecosystem," CEO Kate Berry says.

When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, survey respondents were divided on whether or not the law wisely balances control between states and federal government.

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced a $241 million settlement on Friday – the largest recovery in the history of California's False Claims Act – with Quest Diagnostics, the state's biggest provider of medical laboratory testing, to recover illegal overcharges to the state's medical program for the poor. 


Aileen Black, vice president of public sector at VMware, discusses what those rumblings about cloud computing in the government mean to the federal health IT sector.

Keeping its "eye on the prize, but feet on the ground," the advisory panel to the HIT Policy Steering Committee recently took a step closer to pushing back Stage 2 of meaningful use. Such a delay, the committee said, would grant providers more time to incorporate other deadline-driven health IT projects – most notable, the massive ICD-10 conversion – into their agendas.