A budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars. Read More »

Although home-based healthcare can lower costs and boost patient satisfaction, it also brings care and caregivers into environments that weren’t designed to support healthcare, warned a recent report from the National Research Council titled “Healthcare Comes Home: The Human Factors.” Read More »

For reasons I cannot even begin to comprehend, Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., has a bill (H.R. Read More »

The national strategy for health information exchange (HIE) is expanding, with more pilot programs, more participants, streamlined processes and additional interoperability initiatives in the works, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). Read More »

More than 75 participants from 15 countries participated in a webinar on July 14 to explore how lessons learned from the global effort to strengthen human resources for health (HRH) can benefit social service workforce development. Read More »

When state officials decided to merge Oregon's mish-mash of 12 agency data centers into one secure, cutting-edge facility in 2005, the task before them seemed easy enough. Read More »

About two-thirds of patients worldwide are dissatisfied with their doctors, according to two recent studies from data analytics software developer SSI and market research firm The Research Intelligence Group.

Patients' nonclinical complaints from around the globe fell into three main categories: Read More »

OpenStack, the open-source, cloud-computing software project founded by Rackspace and NASA, celebrates its first birthday tomorrow. It has been a busy year for the project, which appears to have grown much faster than even its founders expected it would. Read More »

If you value open discussion around the true worth of software application development in the enterprise, then the Transfer Summit 2011's "top-level immersion into the world of open source and open innovation in software," could be just what you need. Read More »

Science fiction writers have something in common with chief technology officers (CTO). They both spend a lot of time imagining the future. And the really good ones will see their visions take shape. Read More »