John Halamka, who serves as the chief information officer both at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Harvard Medical School, announced that he will be moving on from the latter post as soon as the school can find a replacement. Read More »

Since announcing his departure from the Federal CIO post, Vivek Kundra has continued driving his ambitious 25-point plan to reform federal IT. The overarching goal is to reduce waste for cost savings – whether that's among the government’s nearly countless individual websites or its many mammoth datacenters. Read More »

Healthcare systems running on legacy software, customized commercial products or homegrown EHR systems that would cost hundreds of millions to replace can breath a sigh of relief, according to CCHIT. Read More »

A number of states could be paying millions of dollars in Medicaid incentives to ineligible hospitals and physicians' offices under Meaningful Use, a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General finds. Read More »

With Wednesday's release of Mac OS X Lion, Apple has definitively leapfrogged its rivals by offering an operating system with state-of-the-art security protections that make it more resistant to malware exploits and other hack attacks, two researchers say. Read More »

Some ideas and debates on the Linux Planet and open source sphere just don't seem to ever die or go away. One such debate is around contributor license agreements for open source projects, including Linux distributions. The issue is once again front and center as Project Harmony has officially hit 1.0 in an attempt to bring harmony to an area of tremendous discontent. Read More »

Linux is everywhere. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told us, "You use Linux every day but you don't know it. It's such a fundamental part of our lives. Read More »

Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for healthcare IT, began the meeting with a discussion of the issues we have always faced while harmonizing standards.  Standards that are widely adopted by the marketplace and are well tested make harmonization easy.  However, many standards are mature but not widely adopted or novel but not well tested. Read More »

Every day I examine my life and think about the roles I serve. I consider all the unresolved issues in my professional and personal life, then ponder the processes needed to address them...As I approach 50, I've become particularly introspective about the challenges in healthcare and medicine that lay ahead. Read More »

The next federal chief information officer should stay the course with data center consolidation, cloud deployments and daily action on cybersecurity, according to President Obama’s outgoing IT leader, Vivek Kundra. Read More »