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.

Network-enabled population health solutions vendor Medicity has become the first to be recognized as an eHealth Exchange Validated System.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has reported a cyberattack affecting nearly 4.5 million people, according to an SEC regulatory filing issued by the health system.

The complexity of relations between physician groups and health systems is one of the unappreciated stories of the post-reform era. Faced with the imperative to improve the value of the care they provide, health systems are attempting to create clinically…

 In June, Farzad Mostashari, MD, the former National Coordinator for Health IT, announced the launch a new company designed to partner with independent primary care physicians to form and join accountable care organizations.