The health IT landscape looked very different in 1994: Most hospitals used paper charts and records, the ONC didn't exist, neither physicians nor patients had smartphones and HIPAA wouldn't be enacted for another two years.

Almost half of healthcare organizations use telemedicine, according to a new survey from HIMSS Analytics.

Proprietary software developed by Pittsburgh-based UPMC uses available data to help physicians choose the lowest-cost option that produces a patient outcome equal to or better than the best outcome recorded in past case files. Physicians can then see their own…

In June, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior committee member, asked healthcare industry stakeholders for ideas on how to improve data sharing and use in healthcare.

After two days of some users being unable to access Practice Fusion's cloud-based EHR platform, the company has reported the EHR is back up and running.

Integrating IT systems during a merger or acquisition could add about 2 percent to the organization's total operating costs each year of the integration, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

ICD-10 is certainly no quick fix for EHR vendors' interoperability woes, but it is a step in the right direction.

During a keynote address at this week's Allscripts Client Experience user conference in Chicago, David Nash, MD, founding dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health in Philadelphia, started with a well-known fact about American healthcare — our exorbitant medical…

Telemedicine offerings continue to grow.

  Health IT and infection control are two elements of healthcare that are gaining attention in this era of reform; health IT for its cost-cutting and interoperable capabilities and infection control as a tie to reimbursement.