Clinical decision support software was associated with an improvement in physicians' antibiotic prescribing behavior in a Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association literature review.

If you near a large metropolitan area, you've no doubt heard a lot about Uber, the ride sharing/taxi competitor, recently. Uber, which launched in 2010 in San Francisco, allows users to book a private — "black," the terminology used by…

The mother of a patient of Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego is suing the hospital over a data breach that occurred earlier this year, according to an ABC10 News report.

Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., has announced it has met the requirements for meaningful use stage 2.

Physicians at the Michigan Health Information Network in June discussed the elements of EHRs and health information exchanges they find most and least helpful, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.

Both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama had set goals for widespread EHR adoption by 2014. While EHRs are still far from ubiquitous, significant progress has been made nationwide in moving from paper-based healthcare.

Los Angeles County has connected its 911 dispatch system to a new app called PulsePoint that alerts CPR-trained citizen users when someone in their immediate vicinity is going into cardiac arrest.

The American Osteopathic Association has become the latest physician group to advocate for EHR training to be a part of medical students' education.

At an Aug. 15 meeting of the governance subgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee, Epic President Carl Dvorak asserted the EHR platform is able to, and has successfully, exchanged data with a large variety of facilities and IT systems.

For developers and entrepreneurs looking to enter the telemedicine market, Medicast co-founder and CEO Sam Zebarjadi offers the following strategies for success in an Entrepreneur report.