Patient engagement is on the minds of a lot of people in healthcare, spurred not only by a requirement in Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations, but by imperatives to improve the quality of care and boost patient satisfaction. [...] Read More »

Headlines telling you 60% of open source and 77% of Github projects are dangerous need careful reading (and a pinch of salt). Read More »

A recent poll of industry insiders predict that the majority of EHR vendors will fail to sustain operations by the time Meaningful Use stage 3 is fully implemented, according to Black Book Rankings. [...] Read More »

Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. Read More »

In Miami, Fla., one medical center has taken patient care to a new level -- one with the ultimate goal creating  improved interactive patient care. Read More »

Mozilla has posted another video about Firefox OS. Intended for app developers, the clip explains a bit about how and why distribution will work in a world without app stores. Read More »

The federal budget sequester — that Rosemary’s baby that resulted from the unholy alliance between political elites’ bipartisan fetish on the one hand, and their austerity mania on the other — continues to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of Americans. Like a particularly nasty and tenacious social disease, it is the gift that keeps on giving. Read More »

Healthcare IT VC funding is on pace to exceed $2B in 2013 according to report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Healthcare IT sector for the second quarter of 2013 by Mercom Capital Group, LLC. Read More »

Despite lauding technology's potential to transform healthcare for the better, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he thinks Meaningful Use needs to be reassessed. Read More »

The Freedom of Information Act Machine, an open online platform that automates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, launched on Kickstarter two days ago and has already surpassed its funding goal. At the time of publication, it had cleared $20,000 in funding from over 600 backers. Read More »