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Written by Mary Stevens
ATLANTA -- “You have been leaders and we want you to continue to be leaders and we will follow your lead,” said David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, in his March 3 keynote at HIMSS10. Speaking to a capacity crowd, Blumenthal outlined the ONC’s accomplishments of the past 10 months and the work still ahead.
A bill pending in the New Jersey legislature would impose civil penalties on anyone using health IT products not certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) on or after Jan. 1, 2011.
Authorized and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formed the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, allocating $1.1 billion to coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness research.
President-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration is drawing on the network of campaign supporters to lay the groundwork for an attempt to restructure the U.S. healthcare system, waging an outreach campaign by marrying lobbying and social-networking technologies.
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Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and advanced clinical decision support offerings.
More than 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were driven by medical incidents. In an article to be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Medicine, the results of a U.S. random-sample survey of bankruptcy filers shows that illnesses and medical bills contribute to a large and increasing share of bankruptcies.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a report approximating the costs of the current updated economic stimulus package currently being debated in the Senate, as well as estimating its assistance to the U.S. healthcare system.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.