I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, a daughter, a sister and a nurse.

I am also a survivor.

At the age of 43 a routine screening mammogram picked up an abnormality in my left breast that turned out to be invasive lobular carcinoma. I had no family history or major risk factors, but there it was: breast cancer. I had breast-sparing surgery ...

...well, not really. In the beautiful world of social networking and social media, you can live in infamy, for the rest of your earthly existence or beyond for that matter.

Facebook recently posted a blog about the need to memorialize an account when someone dies (and to think, life used to be so easy). Now, not only do you have ...

Last week, one of our hospitals went live on CPOE. My boss and I were there as part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony and to commend IT and the hospital for their hard work. When we met in the entryway, he eyed my attire with surprise. I was wearing ...

With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the focus of debate has fallen squarely on the challenge of defining "meaningful use" of an electronic health record (EHR). Maybe it's time to ...

The Protecting America's Workers Act of 2009, if passed by Congress, would dramatically alter the regulatory regime.

Guest commentary from Eric J. Conn and Robert C. Gombar, partners in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, based in Washington, D.C.

Just weeks before his death, the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), with the help of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ...

Evidence-based medicine will improve the quality of care and impact of each health care dollar spent.

Guest commentary from Marc Perlman, global vice president, Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry, Oracle

The U.S. health care industry is challenged like never before to improve outcomes while reducing costs. Our current rate of spending is unsustainable, and more important, ...

I posted a blog recently about Software Advice posting a survey on its site. Here's the results of their survey about whether stimulus money for electronic health record/electronic medical record (EHR/EMR) adoption was creating any buyers or just tire-kickers.

Software ...

A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates that 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. ...

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is pleased that the House has voted favorably on H.R. 3962 (The Affordable Health Care for America Act) and we look forward to its rapid action on the companion bill, H.R. 3961, which will eliminate the 21.2 percent reduction in Medicare physician ...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring ...

The Red Flags Rule hit two more hurdles recently.

On Oct. 29, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment to the American Bar Association (ABA) to set aside an extended enforcement policy of the controversial Red Flags Rule in the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) as it would have pertained to working lawyers. (American Bar Association v. Federal ...

Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the "Winner: Best Foreign Language Film, 2008 Venice Film Festival" sticker on it. But tonight you're in the mood for a poorly acted and painfully predictable slasher film; the one where the band of promising, carefree teens head for a harmless weekend retreat at idyllic Camp Killmore.

And ...

Software Advice is hosting a survey  on its blog until Oct. 29 about the impact the federal economic stimulus bill has had on EMR adoption rates. The article and survey to the ...

I felt the health care reform news out of Washington last week was decidedly mixed. For those of us who have advocated reform for many, many years, the mere fact that legislation made it past the Senate Finance Committee and one step closer to becoming reality is quite historic. ...

Friends of mine recently returned from a trip abroad. The advanced wireless infrastructures found in these third-world countries both astounded and pleased them. By unintentionally leapfrogging the technological revolution, these cities had bypassed ...

There I was on a recent afternoon searching for more details on the term "meaningful use of an electronic health record," when I started poking around YouTube to see if there were any videos by David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, national coordinator for health information technology. Maybe he presented in a public forum and his comments were posted in a video.

What I was surprised to find, instead, ...

For example, in a report prepared for America's Health Insurance Plans ...

T-Mobile's statement explained, "Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery ...

The first thing we boys did after disembarking the school bus was head north for the neighborhood 7-Eleven. Liberated from a day of junior high classes and a numbing 30-minute bus ride, we hungered for entertainment. Pinball was the current rage, ...

Certain ...

So, on a strictly sentimental level, it stings a bit when I hear talk -- however on target ...

The Obama administration's "new OSHA" has a simple message for U.S. industry. This message has been delivered loudly and clearly by both Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Acting Assistant Secretary for Occupational ...

Admit it. Health information technology (HIT) deployment is headed nowhere fast. Despite the evidence and supply-side rhetoric, demand wanes. Depending on whose study you believe and their definition of HIT, industry adoption of CPOE is languishing ...

California prohibits any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or limited liability company that accepts credit or debit cards for the transaction of business from printing more than the last five digits of the credit or debit card ...