The Medical Group Management Association recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services take several steps to ease the HIPAA 5010 transition, beginning with another 90 day enforcement-free deadline extension. MORE

Often considered the healthiest state, Minnesota began harnessing HIT to bridge private and public health years before the HITECH Act. It's building on that EHR foundation for health information exchange, and is also currently cultivating a new crop of HIT professionals: informaticians. MORE

Critics say Washington is moving too slowly on regulations and guidance for health insurance exchanges, leaving states in a time crunch wherein they must act on imperfect information. MORE