Talk about health care on the go. Ford Motor Co. is driving into the health IT world with in-car systems that will monitor heart rate, glucose levels and other symptoms of chronic illness and alert drivers to seek treatment. Read More »

So all the organizations which ought to have upheld health care professionals' values against the onslaught of laissez faire commercialized medicine, now medical societies as well as academic medical centers, medical schools and their parent universities, and medical and health care foundations, seem to have been systematically sold out to big health care corporations' marketers and public relations flacks. Read More »

Dr.  Chris Johnson reflects on how and why, so many medical students seem to lose that compassion for others that is “innate in all of us,” and causes many students to choose the profession in the first place. Johnson writes: “We need to prevent medical training from driving [compassion] into the background, belittling it, or even snuffing it out.” Read More »

Pamela “PJ” Jones, editor and creator of Groklaw, the leading open-source legal news and analysis site, has kept her word. After eight years, PJ is leaving Groklaw. The site though will continue under the guidance of Mark Webbink. Read More »

Without additional funding, the Office of Management and Budget may be unable to meet the October 2012 deadline Congress gave it for producing an easily searchable public website detailing the performance of all government programs, an administration official said. Read More »

The top officials at the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments approved a management structure for development of a joint electronic health record, and confirmed plans to use commercial software for the project "wherever possible and cost effective." Read More »

Never again let it be said that healthcare IT shops are behind the technological times – at least not when it comes to cloud computing. A new study published by CDW lists healthcare among the top three cloud computing adopters, trailing large businesses and higher education. Read More »

The flashy consumer products that have been adopted in the corporate workforce — upending BlackBerrys for iPhones, Microsoft Outlook for Gmail, and lately laptops for iPads — are now invading the federal government. The change may damage companies long associated with Washington work culture, but officials say the shift will make workers more productive while slashing billions from the $80 billion spent annually on information technology. Read More »

A project-management best-practices portal and a technology fellows exchange program with the private sector are included in the 25-point implementation plan. Read More »

So at the moment, the Republican Party’s position is that Medicare and Medicaid cannot use studies measuring the effectiveness of different medical treatments when deciding what to cover or not cover. Read More »