Free electronic health record vendor Practice Fusion has acquired Ringadoc, a startup that offers physicians a cloud-based answering service to allow them to respond to after-hours patient requests through a web browser or mobile app.

As of May 2014, just eight hospitals had attested to meaningful use stage 2. Their attestation data suggests which measures are proving the most challenging.

M*Model has partnered with athenahealth's More Disruption Please program to offer its mobile speech recognition solutions to athenahealth's more than 52,000 providers.

Six large healthcare providers in Wisconsin have formed a partnership aiming to improve clinical quality and reduce costs by sharing patient information and best practices.

Apple's forthcoming personal health tracking platform, HealthKit, will be able to incorporate lung capacity data, according to a report from MacObserver.

At the end of 2013, directed and query-based exchange was broadly available in 28 states and Washington, D.C., according to data presented at a recent meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee.

Spurred by healthcare reform and government incentives, healthcare providers are adopting electronic health records at staggering rates.

Many of CIOs' major projects and must-dos have been decided in Washington, D.C. From meaningful use to ICD-10 to HIPAA security requirements, federal regulations are an inescapable part of any CIOs' job.

The following 14 hospitals have been recognized with HIMSS Analytics' Stage 7 award, the highest level of electronic medical record progress a hospital or health system can obtain:

  David Levin, MD, who served as CMIO of Cleveland Clinic from 2011 to 2014, has joined Epic electronic health record consulting firm Nordic as CMO.