Tom Sullivan
A new paper from IT consulting firm Net(net) says healthcare pays 17 percent more than other industries for information technology. Here are 12 reasons why.
Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan spoke with Bill Bernstein, chairman of the healthcare division at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, which works with states and providers on health IT and related public policy issues, on the implication of the Supreme Court's ACA ruling and how it affects how the law will ultimately play out, health IT projects, and the impact it could have on Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, who has been stumping on ACA repeal.
Paul Hensler, CEO of Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., talks about the challenges facing public hospitals amidst a contentious health care reform debate and presidential election year.
A political debate is heating up in Connecticut as politicians consider the ramifications if the ACA is ruled unconstitutional.
ICD-10 and electronic health records are most frequently considered separate projects, undertaken by separate teams -- but perhaps they ought not be. Heather Haugen, vice president of research at the Breakaway Group explains.
The newly-proposed ICD-10 compliance deadline of October 1, 2014, won't please every healthcare organization. What it does accomplish, though, is to give them a bit of leeway in their project planning. Kaveh Safavi, managing director Accenture's North America health industry unit, discusses the implications.
Citing a CMS survey that found one quarter of providers do not believe they will be ready by October 1, 2013, HHS argues for delaying ICD-10 implementation by one year.
Santorum accuses Romney of being "unqualified" to face off against Obama on healthcare.
The words ‘individual mandate’ have come to haunt President Obama and his administration, at least in the U.S. Supreme Court – but regardless of the forthcoming ruling that particular aspect of the Affordable Care Act just might double as a 2012 campaign pièce de résistance.
At the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society's conference in Las Vegas Monday, AHIMA and HIMSS officials recommended providers continue to prepare for ICD-10 conversion.