Government & Policy
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner faced stringent questioning over ObamaCare on Tuesday, saying she is the one ultimately responsible for Healthcare.gov.
As healthcare facilities launch their own patient portals, technology is only the first step. Administrators are learning that decisions need to be made on everything from patient login protocols to support for patient record revisions.
Because OCR now has more authority and the final HIPAA rule contains provisions applicable to business associates, providers are in a new world of security compliance.
The problems plaguing the insurance exchange site can be blamed on poor coding and political pressures, according to three technology experts interviewed by Healthcare IT News. While all three identified inadequate pre-launch testing as a big source of its technical woes, they disagreed on whether the Obama administration's call for outside help is the right way forward.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee interrogated, scrutinized and criticized contractors for Healthcare.gov Oct. 24, just days after the Obama administration called in a "fix it" team amid growing public frustration over the site's problems.
After nearly 20 years as a CIO, I've learned that even with the best people, best planning and appropriate budgets, large, complex projects encounter issues imposed by external factors that cannot be predicted during initial project scheduling.
With one year until the doomsayer-friendly mandate's deadline, the time has come to lay the mismatched comparison to rest.
HIM professionals of the early 1990s might not recognize the profession without paper, but they would understand the basic role -- and probably be proud of the new value it's bringing to American healthcare. That will be on display at the AHIMA convention next week.
With almost two million Americans falling victim to medical identity theft annually, California's Attorney General thinks prevention should be integrated into reform efforts, and she's offering a roadmap.
The 16-day government shutdown that ended Oct. 17 brought the work of the Office of the National Coordinator to a screeching halt, with cancelled meetings of high-level federal advisory committees and workgroups. But with the end of the shutdown, all hands are on deck and ready to work, according to ONC officials.