Anthony Brino

The Mass. Medical Society hopes a law conditioning physician licensure on meaningful use demonstration will be flexibly enforced — and that other IT requirements for payment reforms won't overwhelm smaller practices.

A new generation of Medicare beneficiaries, longer lifespans and the wide availability of personal technology are creating new challenges and opportunities for home care.

With more than $500 million in HITECH Act startup funding set to run out by the end of the year, too many health information exchanges "haven't figured out how to fund themselves."

As federal officials look to outcomes-based quality measurements, physicians and informaticists say clinical data integration could help the limitations of EHRs in population health management.

A security analyst who could have knocked out the internet in the late 1990s says the VA's hacking could be part of U.S.-China cyber salvos. Either way, the agency needs to standardize its web security, especially for PHI.

ONC has a real understanding of the importance of consumer engagement, the head of the ONC's Office of Consumer eHealth, says. When ONC was originally created and even when HITECH passed, there was a lot of emphasis on providers and hospitals. But it's only in more recent years that it's become more generally understood that patients and consumers play a critical role, too.

Lygeia Ricciardi, Office of Consumer e-Health director, on public understanding of personal health information, healthcare consumer empowerment, and her experience with mobile maternity health.

A survey of 26 state CIOs being presented at the Government Health IT Conference shows how, post-HITECH, HIEs are being tailored to the needs of states and local communities and markets.

As the Department of Defense looks for a new EHR system and aims to improve information sharing for veterans with lifetime digital health records, there are also several key patient privacy questions to consider.

The ONC Policy Committee's Privacy and Security team says there's no need for limitations on providers trying to locate patient record for direct treatment, aside from patient choice. The issue does raise some policy questions, though, and the Committee asked for a reformulation of the team's suggestions.