“[F]or the first time since the recession began, lawmakers will not spend the first part of their legislative session addressing new budgets shortfalls that have opened up since the legislature passed a budget. States are now halfway through the second quarter of FY 2012; new budget gaps are practically nonexistent.”

This is a reassuring statement from the National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) as the organization looks at a list…

We are nearly two years into the $548 State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program, and looking ahead into year three, there’s much to suggest it will be an interesting year.  According to surveys from both KLASS and the eHealth Initiative, HIOs (health information organizations) are on the rise.  eHI says 255 HIOs…