A former Uber computer engineer has launched a physician-on-demand app.

The following stories from Becker's Hospital Review discuss health IT-related costs from the past two months.

Health information exchanges operate much like social media in certain elements, and understanding these functions can help demonstrate the value HIEs can have in the healthcare industry, according to Niram Yaraghi, a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology…

The majority of physicians who electronically exchange data report health information exchanges are overall beneficial to their practice. However, physicians also often experience barriers to data sharing capability implementation.

The Obama administration will not publicly share information relating to security measures of HealthCare.gov, saying releasing such information might allow hackers to break in, according to an Associated Press report.

The American Hospital Association has issued a new guide reviewing the role of hospital and health system boards in cybersecurity risk management and response.

About two-thirds of healthcare organizations believe an information governance strategy is needed to optimize data usage. However, just 43 percent of these organizations have implemented an information governance strategy, according to a new survey from the American Healthcare Information Management…

Google has released a preview software development kit for its new mHealth platform, Google Fit, prior to its fall launch.

Allscripts has announced it will integrate Clinical Architecture's terminology management system into its health information exchange platform with the goal of enhancing customers' vocabulary management capabilities.

More than 95 percent of federally qualified health centers have EHRs, according to recent data from the Health Resources Service Administration. Additionally, 85 percent of FQHCs report their providers have received at least one meaningful use incentive payment.