A physician office in Sausalito, Calif., is notifying nearly 3,000 patients of a potential data breach after three desktop computers were stolen from their office.

Linking electronic medical records and administrative data claims, Truven Health Analytics provides a new oncology-focused data set to help researchers further examine healthcare costs, co-morbidities, adverse events and outcomes for cancer patients, according to a news release.

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC found physicians in Latin American countries were highly satisfied with pediatric cardiology telemedicine services, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health.

Moving healthcare analytics from an event to a process

Ringgold County Hospital in Mt. Ayr, Iowa, has signed an information technology outsourcing agreement with ICE Technologies. The IT firm will provide a full-time operations manager and systems engineer and a part-time CIO to help the hospital meet its IT…

St. Louis-based Amerinet has contracted with Guilford, Conn.-based MedPricer to offer members MedPricer's cloud-based contract negotiation and bidding process solutions.

The C-suite is welcoming more and more CIOs and CISOs, but the leadership structure at many organizations ranks IT and information security leaders below other executives, weakening their ability to effectively drive change, wrote Mansur Hasib, former CIO, public speaker,…

When Carilion Roanoke (Va.) Memorial Hospital noticed a string of heparin therapy errors, the hospital implemented a pilot project that integrated improved electronic medical record documentation to try to mediate the problem, according to a Pharmacy Practice News report.

While payers have traditionally used health claims to predict illness and mortalities, they are now mining data collected from electronic health records to try to intervene and steer consumers to a healthier lifestyle. Aetna is one such payer, according to…

The American Hospital Association has launched AHA SmartMarket, a social platform designed exclusively for healthcare professionals.