Tom Sullivan
Northrop Grumman, Aegis and Terrarecon used last week's Government Health IT Conference to reveal and discuss plans for cloud computing and mobile health technologies.
A former governor, a serving senator, and a 15-year old exchange strike to the core debate about whether being pro-health reform also means a politician cannot be conservative.
HIMSS vice president Dave Roberts is running for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors in a non-partisan race. Even there, healthcare is as contentious an issue as they come.
Questions being posed at the Government Health IT Conference in Washington this week relate to standards, EHRs, HIE, and distributed queries -- all geared toward public and population health.
The VA and DoD are setting a model the rest of the country will want to follow with the joint iEHR. Traficant explains the SOA piece of iEHR, and the brilliance of bringing in the open source community.
David Collins of HIMSS on the theme of this year's show, how the federal health IT landscape has changed since last year, and the hot topics about which attendees will learn.
Paul Hensler, CEO of Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., says that, more than any other issues, "incredible uncertainty" around the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling and the November elections are what worry him most about the future of healthcare.
3M Health Information Systems opened access Wednesday to its Healthcare Data Dictionary, under an agreement with the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. 3M President Jon Lindekugel explains how this will enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated electronic health record (iEHR), and discusses other innovations the project could lead to.
Jon Lindekugel, president of 3M Health Information Systems, speaks with Government Health IT about the newly open sourced health data dictionary and its potential implications for improving healthcare. Hint: Accurate, consistent, and complete clinical documentation.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation senior program officer Michael Painter, MD, discusses how the meaningful use program is creating an electronic records and exchange infrastructure that stands to benefit public health.