Kathy Method

Patients suffering from depression who participated in online cognitive-behavioral therapy sessions were nearly 2.5 times more likely to recover from depression than their standard care counterparts.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released a new fact sheet outlining the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition.

The new program could demonstrate that a low-cost, rigorous survey method can produce ratings and reports on most doctors in the United States.

Medical students view electronic-health-record technology as an important component of their medical education and a critical factor when choosing where they will practice medicine, according to results of a recent survey.

Details of a $694-million program that will create a national extension service to help office-based physicians set up their health information technology have been announced by federal officials.

The Department of Health and Human Services has released the free software that will become the gateway between federal agencies and non-government organizations to create the Nationwide Health Information Network.

Last fall, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement began its free online IHI Open School for Health Professions in response to statistics that say preventable mistakes in healthcare kill 44,000 to 98,000 Americans a year and harm millions more.

A website created in 2006 by the New York State Department of Health to help New Yorkers comparison shop for prescription drugs is being criticized for failing to live up to that goal.

Six in 10 Americans don't believe that their medical records or personal information will remain confidential if they are stored and made accessible online, according to a recent survey.