Government & Policy
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, has announced plans to step down in July, after four years as the nation's top voice for public health.
There are more similarities than it might appear, such as storage, refinement and ensuring value. Should the federal government create some sort of big data agency?
The wave of connected microprocessors cresting in many industries is among the factors changing healthcare. John Glaser envisions an industry that looks different from the way it does today.
There's an app for the Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle that lets users order a custom burrito and prepay for it, so it's ready when they arrive to pick it up. At one Houston-area hospital Harry Greenspun visited recently, patients can use that Chipotle app, he said, they just can't access their healthcare information. That got Greenspun talking about transformation.
Previewing his session at the Government Health IT Conference, Tuesday and Wednesday, Siemens Health Services CEO John Glaser discusses IT ramifications in the era of accountability, patient engagement, and what he learned in a clinical trial.
The Fourth Annual Health Datapalooza stayed true to its name. It was, indeed, all about data -- how to liberate data, the need to liberate data, structuring data, promising new data apps, and how data scientists just might have the sexiest career of the 21st century.
A survey of 26 state CIOs being presented at the Government Health IT Conference shows how, post-HITECH, HIEs are being tailored to the needs of states and local communities and markets.
Leading up to next week's Government Health IT Conference, Daniel Newman, MD, CMIO of MEDfx discusses the current state of population health management, how far we have to go, and the need to not lose focus on individual patients.
Addressing widespread concern about meeting the ICD-10 mandate, athenahealth said it will not only guarantee compliance but also help customers track progress and "backstop the revenue cycle" if need be.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius opens Health Datapalooza IV with an emphatic introduction speech asking those in attendance to continue driving more ideas and innovation in data and information exchange to improve the future of the US health system.