The healthcare industry generally has negative sentiments toward meaningful use regulations, and with good reason. However, the federal EHR incentive program isn’t necessarily a lost cause, suggests ...

In March, HHS released the proposed rules for meaningful use Stage 3, which is expected to be the final stage of the federal EHR incentive program. However, the requirements for successful attestation ...

While there are many benefits of health IT, forcing providers to comply with Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program has been a failure, according to Niam Yaraghi, a fellow at the Brooking Institution's ...

Patients pay equal attention to online ratings that measure a physician’s clinical ability as well as those that measure the patient experience, according to a new study. Both factors are important to ...

Two pieces of legislation — HIPAA and the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act — that were meant to facilitate health information exchange have actually hampered the flow of data, wrote Niam ...

The risk of a data breach comes in two parts, the probability of a breach and the consequence if the breach happens, but mitigating consequences is an area in which the healthcare industry falters, ...

Interoperability remains a political hot spot for the health IT industry, as vendors, providers and the government are all seeking to comply with the HITECH Act while also protecting their best ...

Health IT has an efficiency problem. While IT adoption rates are increasing across the board, the industry has yet to see large improvements in the efficiency of care delivery. In a post for Tech Tank ...

Now that the Department of Defense has awarded its electronic health record modernization contract to a team led by Leidos and Cerner, Brookings Institution fellow Niam Yaraghi says it will be a ...

The federal government has pushed health information exchange incentives onto the healthcare industry, providing more than $26 billion to promote the adoption of HIEs among providers. However, ...

Increasingly, healthcare is pushed to revolve around the patient. Patients are encouraged to be more involved in their care, reimbursement is partially being tied to patient satisfaction scores and ...

President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, which he announced in the 2015 State of the Union address, was met with much enthusiasm from the healthcare industry. Few in the industry criticize the ...