At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual CIO and CEO Roundtables in Chicago, Nov. 4 and 5, Steven Steinhubl, MD, director of digital medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif.; Tom Barnett, vice president, health information technology at Evanston,…

The following vendor contracts were announced over the past week.

Behavioral health tracking company Ginger.io has announced a collaborative for tracking patient behavior and health outcomes with six academic medical centers, including UC San Francisco, Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Belmont, Mass.-based McLean Hospital, Durham, N.C.-based…

To avoid the catastrophic enrollment issues of last year, HHS is hacking healthcare.gov several times before the Nov. 15 enrollment period to ensure the site will be up and running, accoridng to the AP.

According to CMS data collected to Nov. 1, 2014, just 17 percent of hospitals - 840 - have successfully attested to Meaningful Use Stage 2. In total, 1,903 hospitals have successfully attested to MU in 2014, with 221 new participants…

Wearable sales are up 40 percent in the third quarter over the same quarter in 2013, according to new research from FutureSource Consulting.

An Office of the National Coordinator survey of more than 2,000 patients has found that Americans distrust EHRs to the extent that they will withhold health information during a healthcare visit, according to a report from Government HealthIT.

The threat of privacy breaches and HIPAA violations are of increasing concern to healthcare professionals as volumes of patient data expands and the need to share this data among extended-care teams across boundaries increases. The growing use of mobile devices,…

The EHR isn't just for patients anymore. A new study from the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor and published in Health Services Research has used EHR data to track provider effectiveness and value-added care.

How much does a data breach cost? For hospitals and health systems, the answer can be in the millions: $50,000 per HIPAA violation or up to $1.5 million per calendar year per identical violation. But what about the cost of…