Health Care It Scope

At the third annual mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., major players in the mobile arena noted the impact mobile phones and other devices have and will continue to have both in the US and across the globe. Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of...

Despite what you’ve been told all these years, your dreadful handwriting is not the only cause of prescription mistakes. In fact, a recent study suggests that outpatient computer-generated prescriptions may be just as error-prone as your old...

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) said Wednesday that a proposal to implement “blended” payment rates for Medicaid is “on the table” in negotiations over raising the federal debt limit. This proposal could save the government...

Health plan executives say their three major challenges are figuring out how to deal with healthcare reform, the health insurance industry's systemic shift from wholesale to retail business and bending the cost curve. Resolving the challenges...

The Obama administration on Friday said it would stop granting new waivers to the health-care overhaul in September following sharp opposition from Republicans who cited the waivers in their bid to undermine the law. As of the end of May, the...

The Veterans Administration’s new resource allocation process uses a standardized electronic model, but the transparency of networks' decisions for allocating resources to medical centers is limited, a new GAO report concludes. [Editor's...

"OCR’s requested budget will support our ability to protect the public’s right to equal access and opportunity to participate in and receive services from all the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) programs without facing unlawful...

Seven rural hospitals in Texas will implement certified electronic health records software from two Texas-based vendors to go after meaningful use incentive payments. Cameron-based Central Texas Hospital, with six facilities totaling 305 beds, will...

This week, a loose federation of left-leaning groups is convening nearly 200 gatherings to peddle the virtues of health-care reform. A women’s speak-out in Philadelphia. A small-business round-table discussion in Albuquerque. A fish fry for seniors...

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded three contracts totaling $9.2 million to the Georgia Health Policy Center to support programs that use health IT and other strategies to promote access to health care in rural areas of the...

The HHS Office for Civil Rights plans to uses to powers authorized under the HITECH Act to tighten up a host of security and privacy requirements, as well as exponentially increase the financial penalties for HIPAA privacy and security violations. Adam...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), recently signed into law by President Obama, provides welcome news to technology suppliers who are facing a 0.1 percent 2009 U.S. growth rate, according to new research from IDC's Industry Insights...

By Mary Mosquera The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded a total of $80 million more for its regional extension center, state health information exchange and community college workforce programs to boost their support of...

The American Medical Association (AMA) and 103 state and specialty medical societies are urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to revise the Medicare e-prescribing penalty policy, which would penalize physicians in 2012 if they don't...

The federal stimulus money for "meaningful use" of EHRs was supposed to be exactly that--a stimulus--to encourage health IT adoption and quality improvement. If some new survey numbers are to believed, many healthcare organizations are making...