Representatives from several industry groups aired their grievances about the new clinical document exchange standards at a recent meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee's Standards and Implementation workgroup.

 Worries about privacy or security may keep some patients from being honest about their medical history when they see their physician entering the information into a computer, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics…

After weeks of negotiating, lawmakers in the House and Senate have reached an agreement on legislation to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system. The $17 billion plan includes expansions of telemedicine services to help improve care access and…

A new bill before the House Energy and Commerce Committee would require HHS to develop recommendations on how national clinical data registries could be implemented in the U.S. and how they could improve patient care.

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health has acknowledged a patient information breach after several patients complained that their names and addresses were given to a marketing firm without their consent, according to a Jamestown Sun report.

By 2018, the healthcare robot systems market is expected to be valued at $3.76 billion, according to a Markets and Markets news release.

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…