This year's National Health IT Week, an annual celebration to raise awareness of the value of health IT, is slated for Oct. 8-12, and the Health Information and Management Systems Society is preparing leaders to participate online.

Compliancy Group, which markets a web-based solution to assist with HIPAA compliance, rolled out a free online HIPAA quiz Sept. 12 to help organization assess their knowledge of the data privacy legislation.

The Arc of Erie County, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based nonprofit that serves people with developmental disabilities, agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty to the state of New York to resolve allegations it violated HIPAA in a yearslong data breach.

Trends favor more efficient procedures with less trauma and faster recovery.

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The move toward automated collections is reaching a tipping point in healthcare, with 82 percent of physician practices and 92 percent of hospitals planning to ditch manual, paper-based processes for reconciling bills by the fourth quarter of 2018, a recent…

While the opioid crisis has reached every community, rural America has been hit particularly hard.

Artificial intelligence algorithms are saving lives by changing the way patients are matched with kidney donors, Quartz reports.

The total global revenue opportunity for the healthcare artificial intelligence market will exceed $34 billion by 2025, according to a report from Tractica.

Twenty-plus healthcare companies have joined together to form the Da Vinci Project, a private sector initiative focused on leveraging HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources to improve data sharing.