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.

A group of Congressional representatives has asked the Federal Communications Commission to expand its definition of nonprofit hospital for determining eligibility for broadband network subsidies.

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has begun a survey to gauge how ready the healthcare industry is for the ICD-10 transition. After the survey closes Aug. 21, the results will be compiled into an industry report to provide insight…

While mostly agreeing the current clinical document exchange standards are burdensome to providers, several electronic heath record vendors told policymakers at an Aug. 5 hearing that meaningful use stage 3, scheduled to begin in 2017, is too soon to make…

Electronic health record adoption among office-based physicians nears 80 percent. However, outside assistance is helpful to help primary care practices make the most of data contained in EHRs, according to a study in Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient…

Clinical decision support systems have demonstrated benefits in the point-of-care setting, though they often aren't adequately integrated into the electronic health record.