As I travel the world speaking about the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, I'm often asked to present objective evidence that it is making a difference. Here's the progress thus far: Read More »

Watson, the IBM supercomputer that recently generated headlines by beating top Jeopardy players, is being groomed to advise doctors about diagnoses and treatments. But even if Watson delivers more accurate answers faster than other decision support tools, there's no guarantee that physicians will heed its advice. Read More »

So, how can we focus instead on longer term organizational health?  For me, health is the capacity of the organization to compete not only today, but tomorrow...Why is that so much more important now than it has been in the past? Simply because the returns for health are greater than that which they have been in the past. Read More »

It's been a hot topic of debate, in some circles, this spring: Will the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs manage to align and modernize their respective systems in order to establish a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER)? Read More »

Three healthcare organizations in Virginia have demonstrated how small practices can share patient data through simple Internet connections and then hand the data to more technology sophisticated groups for expanded exchange. Read More »

VA’s information technology infrastructure, as well as the joint electronic health record that is being planned between VA and DoD, will be primarily based on open-source software, officials revealed last month. Read More »

In today’s installment of our special “Mobile Message” series, Eric Blantz from Inveneo and Richard Anderson from the University of Washington explain how they apply a mix of mobile phones and other technologies to help solve a critical yet common drug supply problem throughout the developing world. Read More »

At the GHIT 2011 show on June 14-15 in Washington D.C., [Doug] Felton will lead a session in which he'll share some insights about common governance between [the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs], mediating engineering processes and practical applications of such inter-organizational practices.

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Tony McCormick, Secretary of the Open EMR Project, and Project manager of their Meaningful Use certification gives an introduction to OpenEMR, maybe the most downloaded open source Electronic Heath Records system in the world. Read More »

A new seed accelerator that launched earlier this year called Rock Health, is hoping to break [the] trend in favor of health-related mobile and web startups. Though health care only continues to advance thanks to technology, human health remains on the decline and related health costs are increasing...Thus, Rock Health has designed a program...that accepts applications from startups during a month-long period, before undergoing evaluation by a panel of health experts and investors. Read More »