Government & Policy
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation senior program officer Michael Painter, MD, discusses how the meaningful use program is creating an electronic records and exchange infrastructure that stands to benefit public health.
Roger Foster continues his look at how government and private health agencies can harness big data to the betterment of public health. In this article, Foster delves into ways that data analytics can both enhance patient care and cut costs.
Many states are using the health reform law as a tool they didn't have before to drive care delivery and payment changes. Here's a look at how two such states are proceeding.
In a word: Redundancy. But that's a destination, and getting there takes an enterprise-wide effort.
The upcoming presidential election may come down to Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin, if Stuart Rothenberg is correct. And swing voters everywhere may be too busy watching 'Dancing with the Stars' to make any decisions before autumn.
No sooner had the American Hospital Association submitted its comments on the proposed rule for Stage 2 meaningful use than they came under fire for "spurious" arguments on patient access to online information.
When putting protected health information into the cloud, healthcare organizations need to consider the legal liabilities. That starts with controlling your response to data breaches, and includes an incident response plan.
CHIME, which represents 1,400 healthcare CIOs across the country, is asking the government for more preparation time to demonstrate Stage 2 meaningful use, hoping to make sure the reporting is just so.
David Bodycombe of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on how health IT -- EHRs, predictive modeling, PHRs, genomic profiles -- are ushering in an era of greater individualization of care that will improve, among other things, treatment of patients with multi-morbidities.
Classic wedge or media ploy? Either way, the contraception controversy and proposed legislation may be more a tactic to get women to voting booths than anything else.