The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health recently passed a bill designed to establish a database record for health care providers to provide information regarding medical errors to patient safety monitoring groups both at the state and private

The Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) has made a call for nominations for its new American Health Information Community

Last week the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill that reduces the 2006 fiscal budget for the HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Information Technology that is less than President Bush had requested.

Trying to build on the seeming momentum of healthcare-related legislation this year, a number of House Republican leaders have plans to bring several healthcare bills to the floor for a vote, including legislation for small businesses seeking health insur

In comments to a senate subcommittee recently, National Health IT Coordinator David Brailer, MD, PhD, warned that legislation designed to spur on the adoption of health information technology could actually create speed bumps in the process.

As Health Imaging News has reported recently, there have been a slew of health IT bills introduced this year -- but none until now has offered concrete answers for paying for the technology. Two bills looking to pay for IT were introduced together at a jo

The government is all a flutter with multiple legislative health IT related efforts that have been put forth, some by some political heavyweights.