Mike Miliard
As healthcare organizations increase their focus on data security and HIPAA compliance, Kroll's Cyber Security Forecast offers a list of four concerns every provider should take very seriously.
The U.S. market for clot management devices is on the rise and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 4.1 percent through 2017, said a new report from Millennium Research Group.
athenahealth recently announced plans to purchase a 29-acre campus from Harvard University for $168.5 million. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2013.
The market for brain health technology will exceed $1 billion by year's end, and will likely hit somewhere between $4 and $10 billion by 2020, according market researcher SharpBrains. The growth is driven largely by the aging of the population.
Some 40 percent of C-suite respondents to a survey on measuring the return on investment of their EMR technologies said they're using performance measures, according to a recent report from management consulting firm Beacon Partners, but just 36 percent said they're satisfied with the extent to which the data is used to measure the value brought to their organization.
Healthcare IT News Managing Editor Mike Milliard spoke recently with TIME magazine correspondent Michael Grunwald about his book, "The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era" and about the lasting impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
David Blumenthal, MD, a widely respected healthcare scholar, has been appointed president of the Commonwealth Fund. He will succeed Karen Davis, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
More than 60 organizations have signed on with an American Medical Association (AMA) initiative aimed at helping physicians put payer-provided data reports to better use to enhance the quality of care, the AMA announced July 16.
The Care Continuum Alliance, a healthcare industry association with more than 200 members, meets Wednesday on Capitol Hill to discuss strategies for improving population health and chronic disease management.
It's almost too perfect. Of all the GOP candidates President Barack Obama could possibly face in the 2012 election, he's been matched against Mitt Romney.