Legislation

Security
Healthcare CEOs: Senate healthcare bill would have dire consequences
By Bernie Monegain | 02:43 pm | June 29, 2017
Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser, NewYork-Presbyterian executives are all concerned over the Senate’s bill.
Security
Tech hurdles delaying flow of Medicaid data, impatient OIG says
By Mike Miliard | 04:33 pm | June 27, 2017
Delays and hiccups in T-MSIS implementation are preventing CMS and the states from participating in a program to improve the timeliness, completeness and accuracy of health data.
Legislation
Senate GOP leader delays health bill vote until after July 4
By Susan Morse | 04:11 pm | June 27, 2017
Republicans are short on votes needed for bill to pass due to five Senators who will not give their support, including Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.
Legislation
HHS earmarks $195 million for opioid treatment health IT
By Mike Miliard | 01:12 pm | June 27, 2017
New grants aim to help community health centers fund new employees, technology investments to integrate care for substance abuse, mental health.mike
EHR
With Apple consulting Argonaut Project on health records, interoperability could get the push it ne…
By Mike Miliard | 10:33 am | June 27, 2017
Collaborative chief says aggregating your records on iPhone could lead consumers to solve the interoperability problem themselves.
EHR
VA secretary to Congress: We don't know what the Cerner EHR will cost
By Bernie Monegain | 11:22 am | June 22, 2017
But Senators are worried that he is underfunding the commercial electronic health record that will replace VistA.