TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
09/29/10 06:07 pm ET
The White House on Tuesday congratulated teams of Americans who won $60,000 in government-funded prizes by developing kids' video games that encourage physical activity and healthy eating, in the culmination of a campaign aimed at beating obesity and promoting federally backed prizes. >>
09/30/10 03:36 pm ET
Kaiser Permanente announced Wednesday that it is donating a translation-enabling technology to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization.>>
09/28/10 05:26 pm ET
The administration has finished awarding $677 million to create something like a nationwide help desk for the exchange of electronic health records, with Tuesday's announcement of the final two communities selected to offer providers technical assistance. >>
09/27/10 05:45 pm ET
Counterfeit drugs are big problem in developing countries and technology might have found a way to fight it. In an article on how wireless technologies are expanding in the health field, especially in the developing world, Fast Company posted an article today on how...>>
09/24/10 12:16 pm ET
Health IT systems are critical to the success of patient-centered medical home models for health care, a new study finds. >>
09/23/10 06:12 pm ET
A lot of work went into the development of meaningful use standards -- those requirements that an electronic health record system has to do to be considered a bona fide electronic health record system.>>
09/22/10 06:15 pm ET
The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) Act seemed to have given sales of electronic health records systems a pop.>>
09/21/10 05:05 pm ET
When members of a federal advisory group suggested recently that the government shouldn't be in the business of designing electronic health records, Rick Jung nearly fell out of his chair. >>
09/20/10 05:04 pm ET
Using electronic health records and predictive models based on the dynamics of social networks, Harvard researchers were able to identify a group of college students who came down with the flu two weeks earlier than did a randomly selected control group. Monitoring the health of individuals whose social connections make them more vulnerable to infections diseases could serve as an effective early warning system for outbreaks, the researchers said. >>
09/17/10 01:29 pm ET
Federal financial incentives designed to spur health care organizations toward meeting meaningful use standards for electronic health records are living up to their name.>>
09/16/10 04:30 pm ET
Rural hospitals struggling to install electronic health records received a shot in the arm this month -- an infusion of $19.8 million in federal funding from the Health and Human Services Department.>>
09/15/10 03:52 pm ET
As the government considers which "quality measures" to include in the second round of meaningful use requirements for electronic health records, members of a federal health IT policy committee are urging restraint.>>
09/14/10 07:32 pm ET
A major medical association has released data on the performance of heart surgeons, in what bloggers are calling the "open health data movement," in reference to the Obama administration's open government initiative. The president's program involves releasing metrics detailing the inner workings of government via public websites. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons' effort involves releasing scores of more than 90 percent of the roughly 1,000 U.S. cardiac surgery practices to the public via a Consumer Reports subscription website. >>
09/13/10 06:44 pm ET
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, weighed in on electronic health records on Monday in an article he co-authored for MDNews.com. Gingrich, and co-author Jeff Kao, who is general manager of NCR Healthcare, a member of Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation, write that...>>
09/10/10 04:12 pm ET
Providers and consumers of health care are eager to use mobile devices that deliver improved efficiencies and outcomes, yet a number of factors -- from hospitals' inadequate bandwidth to misaligned payment incentives -- are slowing adoption.>>
09/09/10 06:02 pm ET
The impending large-scale deployment of health information technology seeks to dramatically improve health care, yet those technologies frequently fail to integrate care management systems that can dramatically influence efficiencies and clinical outcomes, according to results of a new survey. >>
09/07/10 05:23 pm ET
Playing games to generate insights into a problem so you can create innovative solutions is nothing terribly new, but it has now reached into the health care community. The federal government has used gaming to develop ways to react to fictional cyberattacks. >>
09/08/10 12:16 pm ET
One of the country's most technologically advanced hospitals is outsourcing part of its health IT function to a technology-support consultancy.>>
09/02/10 03:23 pm ET
Even if you've followed closely the government's plan to move the country's health care system from paper to electronic medical records, you may have missed a heretofore hidden provision that will allow pointy-headed bureaucrats to track the Body Mass Index of God-fearing, corn-dog loving citizens and, when necessary, ration the health care of individuals determined by the government to be (and I use the technical language here) lard buckets.>>
09/03/10 09:21 am ET
Quick, what is the first image that comes to mind when you think about team work, as in "health IT is a team effort -- one that requires different players working together toward the common goals of increased coordination, quality, safety and efficiency in our health care system?">>
09/01/10 04:15 pm ET
As the Obama administration showers doctors and hospitals with stimulus money, it should tell the takers to embed an icon on their subsidized e-health records that allows patients to download their records, according to a new paper backed by 46 consumer, provider, corporate, insurance and privacy groups. >>
