02/01/2012
Deven McGraw, director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, spoke with iHealthBeat about the challenges of protecting health data privacy.
01/12/2012
Kate Christensen of Kaiser Permanente, Jason DuBois of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, Lawrence Hughes of the American Hospital Association and Eva Powell of the National Partnership for Women & Families spoke with iHealthBeat about a new federal proposal to give patients full access to their laboratory results.
12/14/2011
Kathleen Gallagher of CDC, Kathryn Turner of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and Sara Cody of the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health spoke with iHealthBeat about states' progress in electronic disease tracking and the remaining obstacles.
11/16/2011
Edward Shortliffe of the American Medical Informatics Association, Joyce Sensmeier of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and William Hersh of Oregon Health & Science University's School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about clinical informatics being formally recognized as a medical subspecialty.
10/21/2011
Helen Figge of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Bill Rudman of the American Health Information Management Association and Alice Hill of Dice.com spoke with iHealthBeat about private-sector efforts to help support and boost the country's health IT workforce.
10/11/2011
Wendy Everett, founding president of the New England Healthcare Institute, spoke with iHealthBeat about efforts to encourage health care providers to adopt innovative electronic health systems that could improve health care quality and reduce costs.
10/04/2011
Jonathan Attwood of Zamzee, Stephen Downs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Chris Hewett of Mindbloom, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari and Christine Robins of BodyMedia spoke with iHealthBeat about new consumer-focused health innovations.
09/22/2011
David Lindeman of the Center for Technology and Aging, Nancy Pratt of Sharp HealthCare, René Seidel of the SCAN Foundation and Steven Wallace of the University of California-Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research spoke with iHealthBeat about how mobile health technology could benefit seniors.
09/08/2011
Molly Coye, chief innovation officer of the University of California-Los Angeles, spoke with iHealthBeat about how UCLA and other health care systems are taking steps to increase the value of the health care services they deliver.
08/10/2011
Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Mark Goldstein of the Government Accountability Office, Carol Mattey of the Federal Communications Commission and Dale Alverson, director of the University of New Mexico's Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine, spoke with iHealthBeat about FCC's efforts to distribute federal broadband funds to underserved areas.
07/15/2011
Joseph Bettencourt, a family practice physician in California, Elise Singer of the California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization, Girish Kumar Navani of eClinicalWorks and Eric Sorenson of ChartLogic spoke with iHealthBeat about the process for qualifying for incentive payments under Stage 1 of the meaningful use program.
06/08/2011
Gary Capistrant of the American Telemedicine Association, Scott Cooper of CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, and Scott Simmons of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about a new CMS rule that eases the process for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth practitioners.
05/11/2011
Dick Stapleton, deputy director of HHS' Web Communications Division, Kathryn McDonald of Stanford University and Roger Harms of the Mayo Clinic spoke with iHealthBeat about how new federal government websites incorporated best practices from the private industry to better disseminate health information.
04/27/2011
John Goldstein, co-founder and managing director of Imprint Capital, spoke with iHealthBeat about how foundations and philanthropic institutions can advance their mission by investing in health IT and other health care innovations.
03/30/2011
David Falkenstein of the Northern Virginia Community College, William Hersh of the Oregon Health and Science University, George Hickman of Albany Medical Center and Thomas Shlala of the Atlanta Technical College spoke with iHealthBeat about federal efforts to boost the country's supply of health IT professionals.