Government & Policy
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.
A study by Harvard Medical School-affiliated researchers, published in June in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that Massachusetts physicians who used electronic health records saw a reduction in malpractice claims.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a national survey on July 18 on the use of electronic health records by office-based physicians. The results should help fuel the fire over any lasting debate as to whether stimulus package funding used to incentivize the use of EHRs was well spent.
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the substance of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a collective sigh can be heard, of relief by some and frustration by others, but certainly of avoided tumult.
"The true number of military personnel injured in Iraq is in the hundreds of thousands – maybe even more than half a million – if you just go a bit beyond the Pentagon's narrowly-tailored definition of 'wounded in action," writes Dan Froomkin, deputy editor of Niemanwatchdog.org in a December 2011 piece on the site.
"Know thy health record" may seem a far cry from Socrates’ ancient Greek aphorism, "Know thyself," but the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hopes its new "What's in Your Health Record??" video contest will bring patients some of the same good old-fashioned enlightenment.