Category: eHealth

National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo has wasted no time sharing her thoughts on the direction of ONC’s work under her tenure. At Tuesday’s Health IT Policy Committee meeting, DeSalvo, one day after taking office, said she believes ONC’s next phase will focus on harnessing health IT for, among other things, population health. read…

Kaiser Permanente plans to use $7 million to build a data network aimed at improving cancer, obesity and heart diseases outcomes this year, the health system announced this week. read more …read more

Last year was another banner year for venture capital funding for healthcare IT–it doubled from $1.2 billion to $2.2 billion, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. read more …read more

Clinical decision support reference tools still lack the level of integration necessary to provide the strategic direction that providers need, according to a recently published KLAS report. read more …read more

Adding fuel to speculation that a new Google product involving biosensors may be in the works, employees from the secretive Google X lab that developed wireless computerized glasses have met with… read more …read more

Some hospital executives are growing impatient with the pace of technology adoption in healthcare, according to a recent roundtable discussion focusing on the future of health IT conducted by Becker’s Hospital Review. read more …read more

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has been working to change focus from technology to support physicians to technology that centers on patients. Publishing an issue brief summing… read more …read more

Though mobile technology has the potential to bridge the digital divide and reduce health disparities among racial/ethnic groups, a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research has… read more …read more