Accurate documentation is critical to delivering improved outcomes and patient safety. Yet for many physicians and nurses, the realities of their jobs can get in the way of charting or ordering in real time, long considered optimal to achieving accuracy.

Of the 485 eligible physicians who have attested to meaningful use stage 2 so far this reporting year, 59.2 percent are athenahealth customers. One of these customers, Peter E. Masucci, MD, a pediatrician in Everett, Mass., shared in a recent…

Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System has appointed Raymond Gensinger, MD, as CIO, effective Aug. 18.

  This week, Apple and IBM announced a global partnership to develop a new set of business-facing mobile apps powered by IBM's big data capabilities.

Through a new partnership with healthcare cost management company Castlight Health, Teladoc's telemedicine services will be available to employers that work with both companies through Castlight's technology suite.

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…

Through a new partnership, patients of four major providers — ProHealth Physicians in Farmington, Conn., Texas Health Resources in Arlington, Palmetto Health in Columbia, S.C., and the Baton Rouge (La.) Clinic — will be able to access care management and…

This week, athenahealth announced its total revenue from the three months ended June 30 was $185.9 million, a 27 percent increase over the second quarter of 2013.

The following data breaches occurred in the past two weeks, beginning with the most recent.

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