Molly Merrill
First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $851 million in grants to community health centers on Monday.
Lack of financing has caused mental health and human services to lag far behind general healthcare in access to health information technology, according to a national survey of more than 400 organizations.
Legislation was introduced during a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Regulations and Healthcare earlier this week to help small medical practices in adopting healthcare IT.
Fifty-six organizations have shown support for the Markle Connecting for Health Collaborative's Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information - a set of practices to improve consumer access to personal health information and protect privacy.
Two laptops containing the health information of more than 300,000 people were reported stolen from Alberta Health Services, leading the information and privacy commissioner of the Canadian province to question the organization's level of security.
Medical device companies have been slow to adopt Total Product Lifecycle (TPLC) management practices, according to a new study.
The state of Arizona and the Phoenix area have experienced a high adoption rate for electronic medical records, but this has been followed by a "deinstallation" of the technology, according a report by HealthLeaders-InterStudy.
Bridges to Excellence has launched five new reward programs for physicians to assess improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and management of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease and hypertension.
Google Health has announced that it will endorse an industry-wide Declaration of Health Data, an initiative launched by HealthDataRights.org seeking rights for patients regarding their health data.
A project conducted by medical information aggregator PearlDiver Technologies, Inc., and Indiana University is anticipated to boost the state’s economy.