Generally, higher levels of outside investment indicates growing or innovative market segments and higher levels of merger and acquisition activity are generally found in more mature or proven market segments.

  Some Democratic lawmakers have joined their Republican colleagues in calling for an investigation into whether the electronic health records CMS has spent close to $25 billion subsidizing are hindering the exchange of patient information out of inter-vendor competition, according…

Health IT hiring in 2013 exceeded 2012's pace and will continue to grow, according to a new survey from HIMSS.

  Electronic health records proved useful in finding an association between a diabetes drug and a decrease in mortality among a cohort of cancer patients, suggesting patient and drug data in EHRs can help determine second uses of pharmaceuticals, according…

  An increase in bookings helped propel Cerner's second-quarter net earnings to a total of $129 million, a 14 percent increase over the same period last year.

The following health IT go-lives were reported in the past week.

The following health IT vendor contracts were announced in the past week.

  Greenwood, S.C.-based Self Regional Healthcare is notifying patients after a laptop was stolen from one of its facilities.

Allscripts' electronic health record platform can now be fully connected to Arkansas' statewide health information exchange program, State Health Alliance for Records Exchange, according to a news release.

A woman who took a picture of her son at a Mercy hospital in Springfield, Mo., was detained by hospital officials claiming she had violated HIPAA, according to a Springfield News-Leader report.