Government & Policy

Some 60 percent of state public health departments are using social media but, lacking a strategic plan, most of those have little interaction with the few followers they have.

Lee Kim, president-elect of the Western Pennsylvania HIMSS chapter, breaks down what health organizations need to consider before selecting a cloud-based vendor.

Most of the headlines about the choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate for presidential candidate Mitt Romney have screamed about how the author of the House budget plan would upend the Medicare program and upset seniors' certainty about healthcare. Ryan's plans for Medicaid, however, are more extreme and immediate.

Romney's selection of Ryan immediately switched the campaign focus from the economy to the congressman's plans for radical Medicare changes.

The Ryan budget plan, combined with spending cuts, repeal of health reform law and Medicaid expansion, would mean more uninsured, analysts say.

In an increasingly thorny matter, President Obama and GOP contender Mitt Romney are targeting women voters with a barrage of health issues, from free market economics to religious liberty.

Vanderbilt University economist Lawrence Van Horn, a self-proclaimed pessimist on healthcare, discusses ways to control costs in the near-term and for future generations.

HIXNY COO Joel Ryba outlines sixteen tenets for enabling effective health information exchange -- and does so in response to a market wherein far too many products are being touted as HIE enablers when many are not.

The HIE, for which the state and CMS announced nearly $17 million in funding on Monday, will comprise the IT backbone for the smarter health system in Massachusetts that the new cost-containment law aims to create.

Micky Tripathi, CEO of Mass. eHealth Collaborative, on the state's long history with HIE and how it has recently turned a corner.