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Medicare hires CSC but with short leash

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) signed its first big IT contract since Donald Berwick's recess appointment. The winner, Computer Sciences...

Autonomy to deliver diagnostic help with or without EMR

Autonomy is about to start delivering doctors what they really want with health IT, namely help. Meaning Based Healthcare is designed to provide...

SureScripts becoming a health ISP

SureScripts, which began as an e-presciption system, is working with Kryptiq to become a full health ISP. The home pages of both companies...

Networks predicted to dominate health IT

An investment and advice house called Marlin & Associates is out with a provocative report predicting rapid consolidation in the health IT space...

How we get to the Health Internet

Fred Trotter has a great summary out about how we get from today's health IT mess to a real Health Internet. It's not...

Will the mHealth Lollapalooza move us forward

The folks at the the UN Foundation's mHealth Alliance are thrilled at what is happening at their annual meeting this week in Washington,...

Breaking doctor resistance to health IT

Kavita Patel (right), a former Obama HHS official now with the New America Foundation, estimates that 58.5% of medical practices are still using...

The impressive growth of Open Health Tools

Back in 2008 I was lucky enough to get an interview with Skip McGaughey to talk about his new open source health care...

Medicine starts to see down side of patents

Medicine has always had a bone to pick with computing on the subject of patent law. (MouseTrap. It's more than a Christmas gift....

AT&T set to serve the Health Internet

AT&T has set up a new unit for health, which seems aimed at delivering the NHIN Direct services now being defined by the...

Health care the new playground for identity thieves

Everyone knows that retail data is at risk. But health care data is just as big a problem. Identity thieves know it. I...

Healthvault enters China market

Microsoft Healthvault has gotten its first entree into the booming China health care market, through an agreement with iStoneSoft. The initial agreement covers...

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