Government & Policy

A survivor recounts real-life practical lessons about building HIEs.

The title of this commentary is pure jargon, but does express the issue at hand. An alternative title "The Most Important Health Policy Decision Hidden as an Obscure Health IT Technical Evaluation that You May Never Have Heard of," would have also been accurate, but is grammatically unsound and too flippant for an important subject.

Or the most important health policy decision hidden as an obscure health IT technical evaluation that you may never have heard of.

Answering questions from an airbase in Afghanistan, Gustavo Coutin explains the career's appeal, weighs in on what it takes and highlights some health IT-related opportunities.

Shortly after the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) recommended that the United States adopt ICD-10, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) assembled a session on the code scheme for its annual conference. The last-minute addition was so late, in fact, that the MGMA did not have time to include it on the printed agenda, and the only available time slot was 7 a.m.

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.