Hospital CIOs' top IT investment priority is analytics software and solutions, according to a recent survey.

Just 59 percent of hospitals say the mobile devices clinicians use on the job are encrypted, placing these organizations at high risk for data loss, according to a report from Forrester Research.

Next week, thousands of healthcare IT professionals will travel to Verona, Wis., for Epic's annual Users Group Meeting.

Increasingly, nurse practitioners use and rely on mobile devices, social media and online references for professional purposes, according to the results of a Wolters Kluwer Health survey analysis released earlier this week. Almost two-thirds, 65 percent of the nurses surveyed,…

The second annual National Health IT Week kicks off Monday with a full slate of events ranging from exhibitions to policy discussions.

National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo has pointed to Vermont's health information exchange as a model for other states struggling to include rural providers in HIEs, according to a report in the Battleboro Reformer.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has sent a letter to committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), requesting a hearing into the causes and potential aftermath of last month's data breach…

Naples (Fla.) Community Hospital Healthcare System has received HIMSS Analytics' Stage 7 Award, the highest level of electronic health record progress a hospital or health system can attain.

Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the healthcare industry was, "more or less, smooth sailing," said Matt Tanzer, chair of the National Transitions of Care Coalition's Healthcare IT Innovations Task Force, in a recent webinar.

Implementing a clinical decision support system may help identify patients who have been prescribed inappropriate antibiotic therapy for healthcare-associated infections, according to a study in Critical Care Medicine.