Health IT tools like electronic medical record (EMR) systems carry a lot of...
To improve health care, we must free data
Why is paper still more attractive (to some) than electronic records?
What is keeping medical practitioners from moving on from their old paper...
Affordable Care Act will make big changes on Jan. 1
If you asked proponents of health care reform to list some of the reasons why...
Sharing video information across medical personal devices
Could hearing truthful messages from the patients being treated by your medical...
Interest groups ask Congress for more interoperability in health care
When it comes to the use of electronic devices in health care, interoperability...
More testing needed soon for ICD-10, says national officials
It's probably pretty clear that the testing that goes into healthcare insurance...
Are your databases sharing correctly?
It's not just medical networks that may need to share data with each other:...
Could a weakened filibuster lead to changes in health care policy?
The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 led to many changes in the...
Providers take steps to prevent medical data theft
As useful as digital technology has been in our lives, it still carries with it...
Senator champions mental health EHR bill
It can be tough just to keep up with the pace of meaningful use initiatives,...
Keeping up with the complexity of healthcare networks
There's no doubt that online systems can make our problems seem larger and more...
Health IT executives under stress to comply with federal regulations
If you thought doctors and nurses had stressful jobs, you should see health IT...
Patient privacy remains critical concern for hospitals
Thanks in part to increased government incentives, many care providers have...
Study: Text messages could be better for patients' blood
We've mentioned before how bringing medical care into the mobile sphere might...
Does the iPad truly improve patient care?
If you're a fan of Apple or just big technology announcements in general, you...
There's no excuse for bad healthcare security
No matter what mistakes your practice may have made in the past, it's a...
Managing patient pain with new advances in IT
HIPAA violations shouldn't just be avoided or feared because of the greater...
Learning from mistakes and looking forward to future conversions
Any deadline can carry with it a looming, scary sense of finality, and there's...
Costs are rising, yet U.S. health outcomes are not
You've heard it before, and you will probably hear it again. Despite the fact...
Do you have a healthcare texting bible?
As this blog has pointed out on several occasions, text messages are an...
Are falling federal reimbursements causing hospitals to close?
When the Affordable Care Act was first passed, it was generally assumed that...
Data security is vital for patient health records
As medical information becomes increasingly digitized, both patients and their...
Are you obtaining actual information?
If you strike up a consistent relationship with a qualified healthcare IT...
What do hospitals need to succeed?
Thanks to health care reform, hospitals face more pressure to perform well at...
Forming compliance strategies ahead of time
It can be so easy to get discouraged about whether or not you'll...
HIMSS calls for 'usability' in healthcare
While it can be easy for companies and medical practitioners to simply throw up...
Will the small business exchanges be ready in time?
Lately, the headlines have been dominated by stories about how individuals...
National CIO Trenkle to step down
With the state of national healthcare technology an ongoing matter of...
Strong online health could arise in wake of distrust
Numerous websites, including this blog, have done many stories about the...
Almost everyone in the United States agrees that the increase in the cost of...