Government & Policy
Charles Kennedy, MD, CEO of accountable care solutions at Aetna, explains the promise of data analytics in the ACO model, and offers 3 key areas for focusing on population health management.
Healthcare IT News has won a Jesse Neal Award for Best Issue of a Newspaper/Tabloid for its November 2012 print publication, awarded by a board of judges composed of more than 100 experienced business editors.
Banking on repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) on March 12 unveiled a plan targeting four major areas of reform. On healthcare, Ryan is specifically aiming to accomplish three things.
Creating policy recommendations for HIE data query and response that reduces "real or perceived barriers," without being overly prescriptive, is the privacy and security "Tiger Team" subcommittee's task at hand in the coming months.
GOP strategist Karl Rove recalls a personal encounter with the power of healthcare IT. Mike Miliard asks Rove what role the government should play in reform, and whether the Bush administration could have infused $27B in stimulus funds.
Achieving meaningful use is no easy feat for small providers, but Blue Mountain Hospital in Utah got it done. CFO Jeremy Lyman tells how, and shares his advice for other small providers.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital was the third hospital in North Carolina to receive payments in return for demonstrating the meaningful use of health IT. CFO Don Trippel explains how the hospital reformed its finances through IT.
Dan Michelson, CEO of Strata Decision Technology, who has spent more than 20 years in the healthcare sector, argues that the healthcare industry would do well to take lessons from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Interoperability was one of the most talked about topics throughout 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition this past week. Before heading to New Orleans for the event, Healthcare IT News asked ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, MD, for his take on interoperability, and what it would take to achieve it sooner rather than later.
Saying that the ACA "is going to be an implementation disaster," that will "hurt our economy severely," Senators including Marco Rubio insist they will only agree to a bill funding the federal government if it contains cuts to spending on the health reform law.