Author: M L Baker

Patients covered by UnitedHealth Group will soon receive patient identification cards that they can use as debit cards for medical expenses and that doctors can

New legislation and certification programs will boost state and local government spending on health and welfare IT from $7.6 billion in fiscal year 2006 to

Patient privacy advocates are bemoaning the lack of protections in a health information technology bill passed by recorded vote in the House of Representatives July

While members of Congress in June introduced legislation that would create nonprofit institutions charged with managing patients’ electronic health records for a lifetime, a separate

A year after Hurricane Katrina disrupted thousands of lives across the South, a coalition of health IT leaders has outlined how to help evacuees get

Researchers at Stony Brook University’s Center for Structural Biology wanted to understand how an essential HIV protein switched between two known conformations. They used computer

The United States lags far behind other countries in its adoption and funding of health IT, according to a study published in the May/June issue

Fewer hospitals and health care facilities are complying with federal laws to protect patient privacy, and more patients are refusing to sign forms to release