Business of Medicine
Government and Regulations
Patient Connectivity During Power Outages
Best Practices
The Use of Secure Messaging in Medical Specialty Care
The benefits of improving communication between health care providers and patients outweigh secure messaging’s implementation challenges.
Government and Regulations
Getting Along With Electronic Technology—Safely
Commentary
Making Health Care More Accessible and Convenient
Best Practices
Electronic Consult Experience: Making Health Care More Accessible and Convenient for Veterans
The Office of Specialty Care Transformation developed the Electronic Consultation (E-Consult) initiative to improve access to specialty care for...
Best Practices
The National Center for Telehealth and Technology
The country’s focus on the invisible wounds of war for more than a decade has dramatically raised the awareness and care for the entire military...
Best Practices
Order Out of Chaos: Emergency Department Integration Software
For as long as there have been emergency departments (EDs), there has been a need to keep track of patients and their status. For most of that...
Government and Regulations
Another Whack at the Backlog; Leveling the Health Care Playing Field; Clearing Up Confusion About the Affordable Care Act; VA Health System Makes the Most Wired List
In the ongoing effort to cut the backlog of disability compensation claims down to size, the VA has added a new online application that allows...
Best Practices
Telemental Health From the "Outside In": Telework Options for Efficient Patient Care
The VA is the largest provider of mental health care in the U.S.(1) On April 19, 2012, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki addressed...
Article
iGEM: A Learning Tool for the 21st Century
In 2007, the elderly accounted for about 13% of the total U.S.