Advanced use of EHRs was associated with a steep decline in patient safety events, according to a new study presented at the Workshop on Health IT and Economics.

Some of Pittsburgh-based UPMC's physicians will not remain in-network for Highmark members after the contract between the two organizations expires Jan. 1. For patients who want to switch to in-network physicians, the move may be complicated by the record transfer…

Representatives from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, HIMSS, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Medical Group Management Association are on the Hill advocating for a 90-day meaningful use reporting period for 2015.

The Obama administration recently awarded $450 million in job training grants to 270 community colleges as part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training competitive grant program.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center's department of neurosurgery has received $15 million in federal funding that will allow specialists at Albuquerque-based UNM to provide remote consults at 30 hospitals statewide.

Technology has the potential to improve care delivery and patient outcomes while reducing costs. However, a variety of barriers, including lack of understanding of technology's potential benefits, little collaboration between providers and technology developers and regulatory restrictions, have limited the…

Oakland, Calif.-based Alameda Health System has pointed to a troubled EHR rollout as one of the reasons it now has to ask Alameda County officials to allow restructuring and delayed payment of the $198.7 million the hospital owes its county.

A federal judge in California has dismissed a class action lawsuit brought against Alere Home Monitoring following a data breach, according to Top Class Actions.

The National Institutes of Health awarded nearly $32 million grants in fiscal year 2014 to help develop strategies to analyze and leverage big data.

Stephanie Reel has been vice president for information services at Baltimore-based John Hopkins Medicine since 1994, where she oversees IT implementation and optimization across the health system. In 1999, her role was expanded and she became head of IT for…