Recognizing early the need to share patient data between non-affiliated providers, officials at Berkshire Health System reached out to other providers in the Pittsfield, Mass., area, about three years ago to try and get everyone on the same EHR.

The Daily Beat blog written by the editors of Becker's Hospital Review has been named one of the top 50 health IT blogs of 2014 by CDW Healthcare, a technology solutions provider.

There's a theme arising in the various conversations I've had about leadership lately: The front-line employees are the ones with the real power to transform an organization, leadership just guides them. This, of course, is an intuitive concept, but one…

The ONC has released the Blue Button Toolkit, a set of resources designed to help organizations integrate Blue Button functionality into their patient-facing offerings.

In 2013, about three in 10 patients were offered online access to their medical record. About half of those patients offered access logged on at least once, according to a news brief from the ONC.

A proposed law would override part of a recent HHS final rule and legislate the 90-day 2015 meaningful use attestation period industry stakeholders have been lobbying for.

Stanford (Calif.) Children's Health and Duke Medicine in Durham, N.C., are launching pilot programs to incorporate Apple's HealthKit platform into care plans for patients with chronic conditions.

Health IT hiring continues to grow — a recent HIMSS study showed healthcare providers hired more IT staffers in 2013 than in 2012, and most healthcare providers plan to hire at least one full-time IT employee in the coming year.

A new law in New Hampshire allows protected health information to be disclosed to a broader swath of care providers, with the goal of improving care coordination in the state.

The following data breaches were reported in the past month.