Health IT

In a country with dwindling health benefits and rising ranks of uninsured, where the rule is to fly first and ask questions later, some patients are finding emergency air flights may save their lives, but also contribute to medical debt they can’t pay.

Senate Democratic leaders have laid out an ambitious timetable for passing the health care bill on Christmas Eve. But if they're successful with their strategy, the vote that matters most and sets the stage for final passage would happen on Monday.

The ‘all-payor, all-claims’ database would ensure robust, long-term comparative effectiveness research, HHS says.

WASHINGTON – David Blumenthal, MD, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said the recent flurry of activity by his office is just the start of big things to come.

The notion of a public health insurance plan appears to be evaporating from the Senate's healthcare reform bill, replaced in part with an expansion of Medicare -- an idea that's meeting resistance from doctor and hospital associations.