With approximately 43 percent of all Americans using Medicare or Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the U.S. Department of Human Health and Services (HHS), ...

After a long delay in releasing approximately $44 billion from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) created last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began accepting applications for ...

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed agencies including the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) to focus on data initiatives and data interoperability. The ability to ...

As the global death toll from COVID-19 passes 1 million people, there’s an urgent need to find a vaccine. To aid in the rapid development of a vaccine the Trump ...

Federal government agencies in the healthcare field have made bold strides in recent years with improving the delivery of health services more efficiently and cost effectively with the help of ...

With the rise of major data breaches like WannaCry impacting healthcare organizations across the world, it begs the question: What do malicious actors have to gain from compromising healthcare networks ...

The busy season for healthcare IT grants has arrived! Over the next six weeks or so, a number of key grants from federal and state governments, as well as foundations ...

There is no doubt that changes will be coming in health IT as we look towards a new administration and leadership changes at agencies like HHS and CMS. As news ...

In this week’s Health IT News Roundup, telemedicine continues to grow across the United States as it gains traction in the state of Texas and city of Philadelphia, but roadblocks ...