Government & Policy
Federally funded "beacon" communities are tackling the problem of hospital readmissions and other tough health care challenges by testing the effectiveness of multiple treatment strategies simultaneously instead of taking the traditional approach of testing one treatment at a time, according to the program's director.
The Office of the National Coordinator deserves credit for managing to pull together, in less than two years and with a small but apparently tireless staff, a plan for rolling out a system of electronic health information sharing across the country.
HRSA releases community clinic finder while DOD launches mobile app to track service members emotional health after deployment.
The stage is set for an explosion in population health mapping that will serve up a 'visual understanding' of disease trends and directions.
Health & Human Services invites states to take innovative approaches to building e-commerce systems for health insurance shoppers.
The HITECH Act assigned Regional Extension Centers (RECs) with the task of disseminating knowledge, skills and best practices related to electronic medical record (EMR) system acquisition, implementation and operation to healthcare providers in need of such guidance.
Readers weigh in on personal health information, the risk of a health IT digital divide, and governance of the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Centers Medicare and Medicaid Services prepares to launch Web site to help consumers shop for physicians.
Recent contracts are noted
Excerpts from health IT blogs.