The HHS Office of Inspector General fined eClinicalWorks $132,550 for violating a 2017 agreement with the Justice Department, which had required the vendor to report patient safety issues with its EHR in a timely manner.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth saw an eventful second quarter, including the departure of its co-founder and CEO Jonathan Bush and a takeover bid by activist investor Elliott Management, but the the drama didn't shake up the health IT vendor's earnings results.…

Here are the top five most-read health IT stories from Becker's Hospital Review in July, beginning with the most popular:

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In a recent press release, higi, an industry leader and innovator in population health enablement, announced Dr. Chris Kryder as its new executive chairman.

The home health and hospice industry is currently undergoing a technology evolution – driven by new regulations, lower reimbursement rates, more care options and tough competition.

Sharing patient data in healthcare is no easy feat — in fact, one of the most common ways patients receive data is still the antiquated process of fax. However, startup MedBlox believes it has the interoperability solution the industry needs.

In March, the White House laid out a long-term vision to modernize the federal government, dubbed the President's Management Agenda. One of the agenda's core tenets is building a robust focus on data and transparency across federal agencies.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society recently appointed new leadership to its enterprise board of directors and its North America board of directors.

Charleston, S.C.-based Roper St. Francis Healthcare deployed DocASAP's online appointment scheduling solution.