Approximately 10 percent of EHRs certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology were never tested on clinical professionals, according to a report from Politico.

Modernizing Medicine, the creator of Electronic Medical Assistant, a cloud-based, specialty-specific EHR, announced it has closed on $15 million of a $20 million round of funding.

As healthcare providers embrace the accountable care model and related initiatives aimed at improving patient experiences and outcomes, IT faces the associated infrastructure challenges and seemingly conflicting technology goals. Mobility, for example, raises numerous security and compliance issues that must…

At the Becker's Hospital Review CEO Strategy Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 5, Holly Carnell, JD, an associate with McGuireWoods, moderated a panel on the evolving role of the CIO in the healthcare leadership space.

Epic Systems has announced it will begin remote hosting — or cloud — services starting in 2015, getting closer to offering "software as a service," according to a report from Venture Beat.

In response to the news that Fitbit won't be integrating with Apple's HealthKit, the technology giant has dropped the devices from its online stores, according to a report from Slash Gear.

How much time do electronic health records take out of clinicians' days? A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found physicians in charge of patient care lost an average of 48 minutes per day due…

If this headline caught your attention, that was my intention. Certainly the 1990s, at least today, aren’t viewed as a particularly innovative time in healthcare. The 90s brought the rise (and fall) of managed care, a rush to employ (and…

"Essential to healthcare reform are two elements: standards of care for managing clinical information (analogous to accounting standards for managing financial information), and electronic tools designed to implement those standards. Both elements are external to the physician's mind. Although in…

Healthcare organizations showed varying levels of readiness for the October 2015 ICD-10 compliance deadline, with smaller organizations like physician practices appearing less prepared and more concerned about the switch, according to a recent survey assessing organizations' readiness for testing and…