Government & Policy

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.

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.