The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a pre-solicitation notice early this month for a series of contracts to support the agency's virtual data center project. Read More »

Tablet computers gained a spot on the Veterans Affairs Department's upcoming procurement of desktop, laptop and server computers yesterday, the first large-scale buy of tablets in the federal government. VA kicked off it massive Commodity Enterpr Read More »

Arien Malec, who coordinated the development of the Direct Project exchange protocols, is leaving the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to return to the private sector, ONC said. Read More »

In a contracting world in which the climate for innovation has been terrible for a decade, one bright spot on a dim horizon has been a surge in the use of contests as a procurement tool. The basic idea of a procurement contest — sometimes called a prize or challenge — is to set out a performance requirement for a capability that needs development work and offer a prize, usually money, for Read More »

The NHS technology environment could be described as a giant hairball – a Gordian knot of past policies, established practices, new initiatives and government objectives and an ever changing landscape of opportunity from new technology.* Openness, in all its many forms, offers a way to escape from the hairball. Read More »

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will widen its efforts in mid-September to bring consumers into its orbit of tools and outreach with a campaign to get the public more involved in their health and health care. Read More »

The American Medical Association and 81 physician organizations submitted comments Tuesday on the proposed rule on Medicare data for performance measurement, requesting that CMS ensure physicians have the opportunity to review their data for accuracy and to appeal any errors before information is made public. Read More »

When a staffing firm produces survey results showing that personnel resources are the biggest challenge faced by health entities under ICD-10, well, that might be something of a calculated coincidence. But that doesn’t change the fact that ICD-10 will demand new skills and, in many cases, that will mean new employees. Read More »

The app explosion has given healthcare consumers a new way to seek second opinions. The Sunlight Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit focused on government transparency, has unveiled a mobile app for consumers that allows them to search for information on healthcare providers, services and prescription drug options. Read More »