Patients are becoming increasingly open to the idea of video consultations with physicians — 38 percent indicated being "very likely" to participate in a video consult, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health — but physicians, too, could benefit…

Louisville, Ky.-based ZirMed, a cloud-based business and clinical performance management solution provider, has acquired Chicago-based MethodCare, a provider of predictive analytics solutions.

Directly discussing online portals with patients in the primary care setting may help increase patients' portal use, according to a study in Annals of Family Medicine.

A small Maine practice's dispute with its EHR vendor that led to the practice being denied access to its patients' records has caught the attention of HHS' Office for Civil Rights.

Conifer Health Solutions, a provider of healthcare performance improvement solutions and a subsidiary of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, will acquire SPi Healthcare, a vendor of revenue cycle and health information management solutions for physician practices, for $235 million.

Starting next year, Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health's EHRs will be integrated with patient records at CVS pharmacies and Minute Clinics, allowing for enhanced care coordination.

Drew Memorial Hospital in Monticello, Ark., may need to repay $904,000 it received in EHR incentive payments in 2011 and 2012 after the hospital failed a recent audit, according to a report in the Advance-Monticellonian.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is now part of the Cerner, Accenture Federal Services and Leidos bid on the Department of Defense's $11 billion, 10-year Healthcare Management System Modernization contract.

Health IT is helping accountable care organizations achieve their many clinical and population health goals. According to a recent survey from Premier, 66 percent of ACOs said technology improved care quality, 63 percent said it improved preventive screening and vaccination…

A total of 130 health systems representing more than 900 hospitals are connected to the Surescripts health information exchange network.