A proposed rule published in May by CMS and the ONC would give providers more flexibility in attesting to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting period.

The Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., was founded in 2007 and has performed over 17,000 procedures. The center is nationally recognized as a top five hospital in the nation for total…

Cloud-based health IT vendor Azalea Health has announced a merger with electronic health record vendor simplifyMD.

Now that Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care has completed its implementation of an Epic electronic health record, the system expects sunnier financial results for 2015.

Starting this month, MedEx Ambulance Service's Chicagoland paramedics will begin using Google Glass to send live video to physicians in area emergency departments to help the physicians better prepare for incoming cases.

Healthcare Access San Antonio has become the first health information exchange in the state and the fourth in the country to receive full accreditation from the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission.

When Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi opens next year, it will be among the first in the world to be nearly completely digital, according to a report from The National.

A California state appeals court dismissed a class action lawsuit patients brought against Sacramento-based Sutter Health finding the patients had no standing to sue the organization after a computer containing 4.2 million patient records was stolen in October 2011, according…

Penn Medicine Rittenhouse in Philadelphia has notified 661 patients of a potential data breach after receipts were stolen from an office in Pennsylvania Hospital, according to a Philly.com report.

While hospitals and health systems are taking extra steps to safeguard protected health information and their health IT systems, they can always make sure to start with a good quality password.