Government & Policy
Attendees of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Care Innovations Summit discuss their takeaways from the event, which drew more than 1,000 attendees in person and 1,500 online viewers.
Whether the information is stored in an EMR, passed through an HIE, coded in ICD-10 or otherwise used, these tactics will help when "selling the value of information governance" within healthcare entities.
A think tank with a healthcare task force chaired by former Senators Tom Daschle, a Democrat, and Bill Frist, MD, a Republican, is advocating for improved and better-used health information technology. Among the group's recommendations is "robust" data exchange.
Wendy Whittington, CMO of Anthelio Healthcare kicks off her wish list with the hope for a great emphasis, among the private sector and government alike, on ONCs Federal Health IT Plan.
Healthcare information exchange sustainability does not just happen. To help achieve it, ask all stakeholders, early and often, what services they want and need. Here's how, with a 12-point checklist for accomplishing that.
Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund and a nationally recognized economist, has a bone to pick with the federal government's recent report on U.S. healthcare spending.
Vermont lawmakers are taking steps to move the state toward a publicly-financed insurance program and craft a state health exchange, which is required by the 2010 federal health law and which state officials hope to use as the groundwork for their eventual move to a unique single-payer system.
Newt Gingrich, the self-proclaimed "big ideas candidate," still in the running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has a history with Healthcare IT News.
Empowering patients to take a more active role in their own health care is only the beginning of what social media is making possible.
In his latest installment of 'My Cup of IT' MeriTalk founder Steve O'Keefe looks into the new buzzword coming to the Beltway and finds a lack of Big Data Big Brains. Know any?