TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
07/30/10 09:35 am ET
In the latest case of foreigners with dollar signs in their eyes coming to America, a Paris-based IT company seeking to enter the U.S. health IT market has bought Pulse Systems, a maker of electronic health records based in Wichita, Kansas. >>
07/29/10 09:47 am ET
On paper, it makes sense to combine the might of the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to "promote innovation and investment in wireless medical devices," as reported here yesterday.>>
07/28/10 12:07 pm ET
You've heard of sex, and drugs and rock and roll. How about food, and drugs and communication?>>
07/27/10 03:32 pm ET
Good technology currently being used in physicians' offices may be outdated in the coming months, and not just because of the speed at which IT develops. >>
07/26/10 03:31 pm ET
Medical professionals are jumping on the smart phone bandwagon, making "there's an app for that" even more relevant in day-to-day patient care. >>
07/23/10 11:13 am ET
Investments in health IT by venture capital firms nearly doubled in the second quarter. >>
07/22/10 08:29 am ET
Each day brings fresh evidence that the transition from paper medical files to electronic medical records has reached a tipping point. >>
07/21/10 07:56 am ET
You can almost hear the squeal of tires and smell the burning rubber.>>
07/20/10 05:25 pm ET
Although it may have been motivated by politics, some Republican lawmakers on Tuesday raised what is a basic question when creating a new policy: How tough do you make requirements to get federal funding? How high should the bar be set?>>
07/19/10 03:41 pm ET
In an interesting twist, the regulation that was designed to protect patients' sensitive information has forced the identification of medical practices that experience privacy breaches. >>
07/16/10 08:26 am ET
Final rules governing the adoption of electronic medical records, released this week by the Health and Human Services Department, significantly softened proposed requirements floated earlier this year. The draft regulations generated some 2,000 comments, yet modification of the rules was largely a concession to large special-interest groups, notably the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, that had pilloried the proposed regulations as unreasonable and unrealistic. >>
07/15/10 08:45 am ET
The release this week by HHS of final rules for the "meaningful use" of electronic health records is akin to the pop of a starting gun at the outset of a five-year marathon. Well down the road, at the finish line, is a transformed health-care sector that leverages information technology in ways that others sectors--banking, e-commerce, entertainment, et al--embraced years ago. >>
07/14/10 05:56 pm ET
How far does the Obama administration have to go in moving the nation to full use of electronic medical records?>>
07/13/10 02:19 pm ET
The federal government this week acknowledged critics who accused it of overzealously pushing to replace paper medical files with electronic medical records. >>
07/12/10 04:41 pm ET
This post was written by Aliya Sternstein. Expect many major announcements this week from the administration and its advisers >>
07/09/10 09:45 am ET
It's not a new law, but it's a tangible, short-term step toward protecting the privacy of patient data that travels online. To address loopholes in current patient privacy legislation, the Health and Human Services Department on Thursday proposed privacy rules that would apply to vendors of technology that transmit personal health data. >>
07/08/10 08:45 am ET
This post was written by Aliya Sternstein. The administration this week posted information intended to help patients choose the safest hospitals on a new website aimed at granting consumers more control over their health care - and curbing federal spending. >>
07/07/10 09:53 am ET
This post was written by Aliya Sternstein. An advisory board to the California Health and Human Services Agency is out with a paper that suggests the electronic exchange of patient records should not proceed unless a patient opts into the network. >>
07/06/10 03:22 pm ET
The Agriculture Department is making it easier on the public to keep track of recalled food and products with a one-stop shop app. >>
07/02/10 09:02 am ET
Mental health advocates are seeking support on Capitol Hill for a bill that would make mental health providers eligible for billions of dollars in incentives set aside to spur adoption of electronic health records.>>
07/01/10 08:24 am ET
Eight of 10 hospitals' chief information officers are concerned or very concerned about their ability to meet meaningful use standards for electronic health records on the timetable set by the federal government. >>
