Government & Policy

Acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner says health reform enables accountable care organizations, among other things, to bridge public and private health.

If it weren't for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the government would not have had the framework and authority to help support the movement toward accountable care organizations, said Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a Thursday keynote.

In the final episode of his six-part series on bolstering public health with big data, Roger Foster looks toward big data's promise of preventing health conditions, and outlines some of the challenges, notably the need for data scientists.

David Collins of HIMSS on the theme of this year's show, how the federal health IT landscape has changed since last year, and the hot topics about which attendees will learn.

Eric Swanson, who spearheads Michigan's Center for Shared Solutions and Technology Partnerships, explains the state's MiCloud initiative, benefits, challenges, and the entrepreneurial spirit fueling the transition.

The Black Book report published on Thursday estimates that spending on health IT will triple, and quickly.

Among the states deploying cloud computing infrastructures for a variety of agencies, Delaware and Michigan are aiming to bring public health entities into the fold.

In part 5 of our ongoing series about big data and public health, Roger Foster discusses the ways the healthcare industry can reap better provider performance, reduced errors, and care coordination from big data.

In part 4 of his ongoing series, Roger Foster presents 3 tactics for leveraging big data to cut the administrative inefficiencies estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare industry as much as $150 billion every year.

In a pilot program, nurse care managers take the time that physicians don't have to understand what patients with chronic and multiple conditions need. The model could very well be a blueprint for others to follow.