Government & Policy

Roger Baker, VA CIO, has become one of the testers in preparation for VA permitting iPads and iPhones to be used on the job, especially by physicians.

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that investment in the meaningful use of electronic health records pays off in terms of care quality – most of all when compared to archaic, paper-based records.

In both technology and healthcare, groundbreaking ideas are frequently ahead of their time. Remember Apple's Newton?

For the nation's hospitals, information requirements of the federal government's imminent reimbursement reform initiative called value-based purchasing are starting out easy. Deceptively easy.

As the accreditor selected by the Office of the National Coordinator to oversee the Permanent Certification Program for Health Information Technology, the American National Standards Institute announced Thursday it's open for business.

HHS grants funds to states to boost prevention, screening and public health infrastructure, including immunization registries and other systems.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday awarded $137 million to 50 states – and Guam – to strengthen prevention efforts and to improve public health. Many of the awards include a health IT component, such as immunization information technologies and registries.

The East Coast earthquake is just one in growing cadre of events where social media has become part of the response.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has requested $3.2 billion in its IT budget submission for FY 2012. Each investment in the budget request is assigned a sub-function classification based on the program's purpose as it relates to overall IT and federal government operations.

The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) draft rule is out, and the political, clinical and technical trek is on to establish these lynchpins of the Affordable Care Act and health reform.