News
The American Medical Association will convene its five-day annual meeting here on June 13 with a policy-filled agenda that includes discussion of the healthcare IT provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Washington Post has launched Health Reform Rx, an online panel made up of officials, industry leaders and newsmakers to address issues in healthcare.
Fixing the nation's broken healthcare system cannot wait, President Obama said Saturday in his weekly address. The government could pay for reform now, he said, by eliminating waste and fraud and taking on key causes of rising costs.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is planning to implement a healthcare management platform to its 880,000 members this month.
Even as the healthcare IT industry awaits the official definition of "meaningful use" from the federal government, a new report from KLAS examines which electronic medical record products should fit that description.
In the first quarter of 2009, chief information officers experienced significant IT budget revisions, according to a survey by Gartner.
The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) has garnered support from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) for the alliance's efforts to deliver thousands of sustainable diagnostic digital imaging systems to developing communities around the world.
The American College of Radiology plans to launch the National Mammography Database in July, part of a warehouse of the ACR registry databases.
A new survey from Microsoft Corp. shows that Americans want their doctors and their health plans to use technology to help them become healthier.
More than 50 percent of healthcare providers believe the billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked for healthcare information technology will have little to no success in encouraging adoption, according to a recent survey.