Government & Policy

Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.

Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of accountable care organizations (ACOs) for health reform.

The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the comment period for its proposed rule on health insurance exchanges.

Did you hear the one about the lawyer who calls on an HIE? Most likely not – because it’s no joke.

The widespread sharing of health information is going to be a long, tough journey during which technology must advance, and politics need to be aligned properly.

Peter Muir explains how ICD-10 and meaningful use are backward, timing-wise, and how ICD-10 will result in a loss on investment.

The years since the attacks have seen a series of events that, particularly when taken together, display the need for a broadly interconnected health system.

Patient data lost while in the hands of a business associate becomes "extraordinarily" difficult to track, says one expert, who identified data-centric protection as a way to safeguard information like that recently exposed at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.

Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator and director for the Center of Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says doctors are eager to try accountable care organizations (ACOs).

A bill in California aimed at strengthening the state's existing data breach notification requirements will become law on January 1, 2012.