Government & Policy
Deeply entrenched business models, implementation costs, regulations and technical challenges all stand between healthcare organizations and secure, interoperable health data.
HHS, along with other departments across the board, may have to do more with less.
Echoing sentiments from LGBT groups made when the OCR director was hired in March, a group of Democratic Senators is denouncing the appointment.
HIMSS and 24 other organizations want the feds to support creating unique patient identifiers to improve care delivery.
The law was enacted when the internet was in its infancy and healthcare was still paper-based.
Our top takeaways from the Pop Health Forum 2017 in Boston.
The contest seeks better ways to determine where data has come from, and whether it's reliable and trustworthy.
The reversal of opinion could now open the floodgates for other genetic testing companies.
An Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources experienced in helping healthcare organizations manage transitions and others have quietly joined HHS.
The House speaker said the idea, modeled after a Maine program, has support of both moderates and the conservative Freedom Caucus.