The spending estimate for health IT provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act seems like a moving target. I guess that's the nature of estimates, anyway.
Halloween may be over, but the quest for meaningful use goes on.
I saw this ad in Terminal 3 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week... It's a simple and powerful message, but I wonder how many people truly understand it?
Former national health IT coordinator and longtime Department of Veterans Affairs informatics leader Robert Kolodner, M.D., is retiring from the federal government today.
The deadline for submitting papers for the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, also known as MedInfo 2010, has been extended to Oct. 15
It seems inevitable, given the success of the iPhone in healthcare, but I'm hearing that Apple is getting ready to make a full-scale push into healthcare.
As I write today in FierceEMR, consummate Washington insider publication The Hill made a rather glaring mistake in reporting earlier this week that the $1.2 billion in federal grant funding for health information exchange and regional health IT extension centers can't be awarded until HHS finalizes its definition of "meaningful use."
Merge Healthcare, a company that seems to be back on its feet after an accounting scandal, a trip through bankruptcy and a change of management, is opening up some of its proprietary code for outside development.
The newly published July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks includes a story I wrote about the worsening staffing crunch in health IT.
Before I forget, I had the cover story in the May issue of MD Net Guide, on the subject of EMR failures and uninstalls in physician practices.
