TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
01/27/12 02:00 pm ET
The nation's health IT czar polished off his crystal ball this week and predicted five major health IT trends for the year. Dr. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health IT, shared the prognostications on his office's Health IT Buzz blog:Meaningful use takes off. Mostashari...>>
01/25/12 04:00 pm ET
Venture capitalists continue to view health IT companies favorably. Investment by VC funds in the health IT sector increased 22 percent last year over the 2010 total, far outpacing the overall 10 percent increase in the amount of capital raised across all industry sectors,...>>
01/23/12 02:22 pm ET
Physicians who have an ownership stake in a medical practice are more likely than other doctors to rate EHR implementation as difficult. That's the finding of a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. "Physicians who own their...>>
01/20/12 05:36 pm ET
If you have to sit in traffic, you might as well do something to improve your health. At the Digital Health Summit during this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ford Motor Company promoted mobile health apps enabled by its Sync computer system....>>
01/17/12 07:25 pm ET
A major U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contractor has fallen behind in its efforts to promote electronic health records, concluded the General Accountability Office in a Jan. 13 report. The contractor, the not-for-profit National Quality Foundation, or NQF, failed to deliver five...>>
01/16/12 04:55 pm ET
Health IT appears effective in helping medical practices to keep their patients' high-blood pressure under control, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The combination of electronic health records and clinical decision support (CDS) systems showed the best results, according...>>
01/13/12 01:40 pm ET
The nation's health IT czar is once again turning to the private sector to find innovative ways of spreading the word about the benefits of health technology. This time the topic is how technology can help individuals set and meet health goals. The Office...>>
01/11/12 04:50 pm ET
The topic of health, including electronic records and health information exchanges, is among the top 12 legislative issues state lawmakers will grapple with in 2012, predicts the National Conference of State Legislatures. States' lawmakers will focus on how to nudge health-care providers toward adopting...>>
01/09/12 03:59 pm ET
Here are the top 10 developments in health IT for 2011, straight from the national coordinator for health IT. Dr. Farzad Mostashari released the month-by-month list Jan. 6 on his Health IT Buzz blog:January: Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs launched. Since...>>
01/06/12 06:10 pm ET
Two teams using health IT tools to help prevent and treat cancer have been named winners in an Investing in Innovation (i2) challenge sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Winners of the "Using Public Data for Cancer Prevention and...>>
