Author: Stacy Lawrence

Shortly after a Kaiser Permanente project supervisor circulated an internal e-mail to more than 180,000 employees denouncing the company’s electronic health record system and the

Premier, a health alliance of more than 200 nonprofit hospitals and health care systems, recently released results from its pay-for-performance demonstration project with the Centers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a microchip-based test that distinguishes between flu strains and

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is creating a database of health insurance claims from 79 million of its clients. The data will have no personal

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a Baltimore-based agency, has selected vendors to test the feasibility of allowing covered individuals to access their claims information

Expected to help manage every health crisis, from pandemics to chronic diseases, a new program is working to help public health departments prepare reliable IT

Over the last few months, a number of major international grid computing collaborations have been working to uncover more effective treatments for avian flu. Scientists

At the end of April, the Food and Drug Administration will officially require drug makers and marketers to have a bar code on all drugs