Government & Policy
In a letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner this past Friday, a who's-who of healthcare stakeholders laid out their list of desired improvements to the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
3M president JaeLynn Williams has a unique purview into the preventable events, reduced readmissions and population health work resulting in success stories among a handful of states.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is calling on Congress to add its influence and energy to the push toward nationwide healthcare interoperability.
The new CMS regulations can, and indeed will, spur action. Here's a look at what that means to your healthcare organization.
Some 1,200 health IT professionals packed into the Washington Hilton this week for the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting. The focus this year? Interoperability, standards and big data.
The Obama Administration is budgeting $215 million for what's being called the Precision Medicine Initiative -- a project White House officials say will "pioneer a new model of patient-powered research."
Revisit what some hospital CIOs identified as their key challenges last year. From standardization of workflow processes to increasing compliance demands to concerns about privacy and security, CIOs had a full plate in 2014.
Gary Light, VP/CIO at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper, Indiana, talks about IT goals for 2015 and offers advice to fellow CIOs.
The world's largest consulting firm has secured a behemoth five-year contract to continue its work on the federal government's health insurance marketplace.
The potential cost of breaches for the healthcare industry could be as much as $5.6 billion annually, according to a new report from Experian, a global information services firm. The report is Experian's second annual data breach forecast across industries.