The House Ways and Means Committee members discussed discarding the current Medicare payment formula to consider tying payments to physicians based on their job performance on February 10th.

At a speech last week given at the Cleveland Clinic, President Bush told members of the audience that digital health records would help reduce healthcare costs and also outlined proposals for future funding needed for projects that demonstrate the effecti

While the marriage of informatics and radiation oncology is not changing treatment options for patients, it is providing the radiotherapy team with smarter, more efficient tools to manage electronic information.

The Senate yesterday confirmed Michael Leavitt as the new HHS secretary, replacing Tommy Thompson.

President Bush on Monday nominated Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Mike Leavitt to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) on Monday released a request for information (RFI) that calls on the healthcare industry to provide input to the government on how to develop and face the interoperability c

From the $139 million in grants and contracts awarded by HHS's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Indiana has received $9.3 million, the second highest overall grant, to promote the use of health information technology (HIT) to provide bet

Helping the nation further attain its goal of nationwide electronic health recorders, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) this week announced $139 million in grants and contracts to pro