One of the most critical issues facing provider organizations is the current labor shortage of healthcare professionals and its projected increase.

Technology can be a powerful way to improve and save lives, and unsafe devices can also seriously endanger lives.

A consortium of health IT vendors, called the OpenEMR Consortium, submitted a proposal for an open source EHR to the U.S. Coast Guard June 2.

A bill that sets limits on telemedicine eye examinations passed Connecticut's Senate unanimously June 6, according to Hartford Courant.

The American Hospital Association asked lawmakers to reimburse telehealth services under Medicare Advantage plans in a statement presented to the House Committee on Ways and Means June 7.

The American Medical Informatics Association voiced its support for the 2018 rollout of new certified EHR technology and enhanced reporting period flexibilities in a June 13 letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

Type 2 diabetes patients with and without self-monitoring blood glucose devices reported no significant differences in clinical outcomes or adverse events, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center joined forces with Tempus, a health technology company focused on personalized oncology care, to improve breast cancer treatment.

Hospitals must harness their purchasing power to push health IT vendors to embrace interoperability standards, three researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University wrote in an op-ed for Harvard Business Review.

The National Quality Forum released a draft framework June 1 outlining methods to measure the quality of telehealth programs.