Government & Policy
National Conference of State Legislatures support push for expanding health information technology to Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and sick.
The USNS Comfort will sail Saturday with only enough medical personnel to staff 250 of the ship's 1,000 hospital beds.
The Military Health System Office of Transformation established to reform military health services.
Pentagon wants to convert its scheduling and registration system to a new database technology.
Software allows nursing homes to head off falls and other health threats to residents.
Systems integrators await new business to help Medicare develop systems for the soon-to-arrive Medicare prescription drug benefit.
The number of health information exchanges that share information has nearly tripled during the past year, according to an eHealth Initiative Foundation report.
UNM Health Sciences Center tests the use of EHRs in psychiatry.
The head of the Homeland Security Operations Center will become the first chief of the Homeland Security Department's new operations division.
Developers of Health IT records are overlooking long-term care institutions as they implement records in the health care industry, experts say.
