Use of an advanced EHR system could reduce patient safety events, according to research from Carnegie Mellon and the ECRI institute, which examined patient safety outcomes due to advanced EHR implementation.

After a mostly glitch-free opening weekend, healthcare.gov hit its first significant technical difficulty Monday, when heavy traffic prevented users from accessing their existing accounts, according to a report from CBS.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a guide to evaluating health information exchange projects.

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston is notifying patients that their medical data has been breached after a laptop and cell phone were stolen from a BWH physician in an armed robbery.

KLAS, a medically focused research firm, released its report on clinical documentation improvement services earlier this fall, analyzing financial outcomes, case mix index, CDI program sustainability and ICD-10 preparedness, among other categories.

Two regional health information exchanges in New York state plan to join into a single regional health information organization.

Patient portal and patient engagement software provider Bridge Patient Portal has partnered with Bizmatics PrognoCIS EHR and practice management software.

Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Health announced plans to open a Digital Innovation Lab in Boston to become the central location of CVS Health's digital services development.

According to a Frost & Sullivan study, the healthcare cloud market in the United States could be worth $3.5 billion by 2020.

This year, the federal health insurance exchange website seems to be working well enough that as of Sunday, the day after sign-up went live, 100,000 people had submitted insurance applications, according to a report from The New York Times.