Government & Policy

Results of two polls published in the past week, from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew Research Center, demonstrate growing support for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

Explore this topic before HIMSS17 during the Jan. 31 #HCLDR chat. 

Access to healthcare is underpinned in large part on a health consumer’s access to information about available health care services, their location, price, and if the patient is very fortunate to glean, quality.

'PwC is placing a strategic bet that healthcare in America will continue to move to value-based payment and outcomes will continue to evolve in the U.S. under a President Trump. It's a sound bet.'

Nurses, pharmacists, doctors rank highest on the honest and ethics in U.S. professions for 2016.

President-elect Trump wants to bring down drug prices

In a world where cyber criminals can exfiltrate healthcare data from the other side of the globe, health systems have their work cut out for them when it comes to protecting patient information.

Sue Schade explains why she will approach the next four years with an open mind. 

John Halamka, MD, served the Bush administration for four years and the Obama administration for six. Change in Washington happens incrementally, he says: There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.

Maybe it's time for a discussion about what people want from the U.S. healthcare system.