Health coaches who used tablet-based software and worked with at-risk Medicare patients were more effective in reducing readmission rates than health coaches who did not use the software when working with the same demographic, according to an Innovations Exchange report…

Five principles to help guide the implementation of smart, secure health IT solutions

CIOs' roles have expanded far beyond being simply the head of IT. CIOs are now an increasingly indispensible member of the C-suite, a leader relied upon to both lead hospitals' swelling IT departments as well as help their organizations find…

  In the second quarter of 2014, health IT companies raised $1.8 billion in venture capital over 161 deals, more than double the amount raised in the first quarter of this year and the first time the sector has raised more than…

Workgroups within the Senate finance and health subcommittees have plans to discuss the meaningful use program with the goal of providing feedback and recommendations to the ONC as the agency prepares for stage 3, according to a report in Politico.

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.