A courier for Beverly (Mass.) Hospital lost lab request forms for 54 patients as he was in transit from Beverly Hospital to Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Mass., according to a Gloucester Times report.

A new partnership between Denver-based Healthgrades and Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth allows consumers to schedule appointments online.

Healthcare is poised for disruption, and if the leading theory on disruptive innovation holds true, the leading organizations in the industry today will not be the ones to bring about that disruption. But as I've written previously on this blog,…

The value and usability of the electronic health record is an often-debated topic in the health IT industry. In a recent Medscape survey, 35 percent of respondents said the EHR improves the ability to respond to patient issues, but 70…

As healthcare reform forges on, some players in the healthcare industry have voiced concerns that other key pillars in the field, such as HIPAA, are becoming outdated, according to a report in The Morning Consult.

Stock prices in the health IT sector declined 10 percent overall in the first half of 2014, according to a report from Healthcare Growth Partners.

More and more healthcare organizations are using virtual desktop infrastructure, according to a report from IT security firm Imprivata.

A growing demand for unaltered and unformatted data, especially for research and analytics efforts, has introduced "the lake" into the health IT lexicon, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.

  Cloud-based health IT vendor athenahealth is expanding its strategic partnership with Henry Schein to incorporate the latter's Dentrix Enterprise electronic dental record system into the athenaNet electronic health record platform at community health centers, including federally qualified health centers.

Overall, health IT consultants appear to be slightly more satisfied with their job than full-time health IT employees, according to a survey from Healthcare IT Leaders, a health IT consulting and staffing firm.