M.L. Baker

The premise of pay for performance is hard to disagree with: Doctors and institutions that provide better care should earn more money. This premise,

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has removed from its Web site online forms used to collect patient information, including names, Social

PALO ALTO—The American health system is "saturated with inefficiency," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Monday at a gathering

SALT LAKE CITY—Health advocates clamoring to substitute paper charts with electronic ones are shortsighted. That's according to Rick Peters of the

SALT LAKE CITY—"The products have increased, but the fundamental issues are the same." That's how Richard Ward, CEO of Reward Health Sciences, Inc.

SALT LAKE CITY—Companies selling electronic medical record systems pit their IT against pens and paper this week at the Medical Records Institute's

Fewer than one in four physicians keep their patients' information in an EMR. At this year's Toward an Electronic Patient Record conference, some 100

SALT LAKE CITY—The nonprofit Medical Records Institute announced the winners of its sixth annual awards in several health IT categories at its

The business of health information technology got boosts from both the executive and legislative branches this week. In the House of Representatives, a

Edward Fotsch wants to take clipboards out of doctors' offices. The CEO of Medem, a company providing Internet-based services to doctors, this week

When a patient's heart begins to fail, blood loses its forward thrust. Fluid builds up in the lungs, abdomen and lower limbs, causing dry cough and sudden

On Tuesday, IBM launched an effort to build a prototype infrastructure for health information exchange, complete with speeches by the nation's health IT