Tom Sullivan

Despite the criticism waged against the proposed ACO rules, there's an appetite in healthcare to rethink the delivery system – but only if CMS eases the measures.

Entwined in a blame game, few health entities have their HIPAA 5010 conversion underway, despite the looming deadline.

Even doctors who have purchased and successfully implemented electronic health record systems did not always know what they were buying until they were up and running, ONC director Farzad Mostashari, MD, told an audience June 15 at the Government Health IT Conference in the nation's capital.

Despite the growing number of EHRs, classic causes of market failure persist.

Despite disappointments, the cloud model promises "hope beyond the hype."

ONC says it is building a draft governance document to ultimately enable more providers to join the Nationwide Health Information Network.

DoD/VA manager of enterprise architecture Doug Felton discusses mediating processes and practices between the departments, and why the agencies are now aligned for a project such as the joint EHR.

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

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.