Joe Selby has been named director of the — deep breath — Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Few sentences I’ve written on this blog read as uninteresting as that one. But Selby and his agency are really, really important. They’re the folks in charge of comparative-effectiveness research. Read More »

...one of Lawrie’s first moves was to create a stand-alone unit for open source technology, which was a key component of his vision for the company’s future. He knew that open source was emerging as a serious disruptive threat in the software industry, especially in health care...

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Gov2 TV, a new television show focused on Gov 2.0 and open government, launched this week. Read More »

If health information is a sort of currency, then what we are seeing is that physicians are beginning to recognize its value. Physicians (and patients, too) are pulling for new functionality and opportunities to use health data, but for the data that really matters, patient data, they’re coming up empty. Read More »

"Our research suggests that firms thrive when senior teams embrace the tension between old and new and foster a state of constant creative conflict at the top. We call this leading ambidextrously." Read More »

As the primary-care workforce continues to be strained, new research shows that areas with higher levels of primary care have fewer patient deaths and preventable hospitalizations, according to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Read More »

Transitioning about one-fourth of the government's $80 billion information technology enterprise to the cloud will save at least $5 billion annually, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Read More »

Members of a Senate committee expressed concern Wednesday that reforms taken by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have done little to cut the maze of bureaucracy experienced by many service members and veterans trying to navigate the military health-care system. Read More »

After two years of open government (yes, others have been doing this much longer), we’re at a point where we’ve tried a number of tricks, and it’s time to assess what works and what doesn’t. Read More »

Just about every big pharma or biotech company that has earned an unwelcome reputation for building huge and unproductive R&D empires is taking a page from the household products behemoth Procter & Gamble and joining the shift to "open innovation." Read More »