Government & Policy

NHS Confederation director of international relations Dr Layla McCay looks at the prospect of a no deal scenario.

Tom Leary highlights milestones made during the annual event and looks at this year’s NHITWeek points of engagement.

When its EHR vendor wasn’t going to be ready until 2020, the IT team took matters into its own hands in a low-budget open source project that is already paying off.

Despite their apparent promise to advance interoperability of clinical and claims data, exactly when the Blue Button 2.0 and MyHealthEData initiatives that CMS unveiled at HIMSS18 will be fully implemented remains unclear.

The number of uninsured women in the U.S. fell by nearly a half, from 19 million in 2010 to 11 million in 2016.

When I speak to groups about women in IT, I tell them not to put up with being bullied, intimidated and other nonsense.

Mike Restuccia says the WannaCry, Petya and ransomware attacks demand more collaboration between healthcare leaders and government agencies, immediately. 

The veteran executive proposes a multi-pronged approach to ending the tyranny of wasted time and effort created by today’s technologies.

Ernst & Young health practice leader Carole Faig explains what hospital executives should focus on while the federal government debates the future of the Affordable Care Act. 

Transforming healthcare usability must include standardization to evaluate effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.