A new study, led by Ashish Jha, MD, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Catherine DesRoches of Massachusetts General Hospital, found little difference in cost and quality among the 3,000 hospitals that were in various stages of electronic health record initiatives. If you just stopped at the headline, it's great fodder for those who believe EHRs are over-hyped. But when you read the details of the study's findings, it's actually a story in favor of EHRs. Read »

As the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT continues to hone its definition of meaningful use for health IT, it should take note of the results of Kaiser Permanente’s osteoporosis prevention program. Read »

The full value of investments in electronic medical records, electronic health records and other health IT won't be realized until the data gathered by those systems finds secondary use, according to a report that was released earlier this month by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read »

It's been almost six years since former President Bush declared that he wanted every American to have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014. President Obama has taken up the cause, citing health IT as an important component the healthcare reform and transformation, and he put our money on it.  Read »