Healthpointe, a multidisciplinary healthcare organization offering medical services in southern California, has announced plans to launch a new virtual urgent care service, providing consultations via telemedicine.

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is notifying patients of a security breach resulting in compromised data of 10,000 patients.

CMS has issued a final rule granting providers the flexibility in meaningful use attestation the agency had originally proposed back in May.

Earlier this summer, Michael Hunt, DO, CMO and CMIO of St. Vincent's Health Partners, was recognized by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems with the 2014 AMDIS Award for excellence and outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics.

According to the latest data from CMS, just 78 hospitals have attested to meaningful use stage 2 as of Aug. 1.

The following health IT go-lives were reported within the past week.

The following vendor contracts were announced within the past week.

Big data and data analytics are the talk of the town when it comes to population health. No doubt such an aggregate of information can be beneficial in discovering and addressing healthcare trends, but such data, mainly compiled from clinical…

The ONC and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have partnered to develop pilot programs for parents to access their children's immunization records online.

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly implementing and joining health information exchanges as a means to improve the quality of patient care as well as meet meaningful use requirements.