By 2013, 89 percent of critical access hospitals had installed full or partial electronic health record systems. Despite high adoption, CAHs were less likely than any other types of hospitals to have met meaningful use criteria in 2013 due to…

Several Senators renewed their call Wednesday for less government oversight of some health IT products, saying too many regulatory hurdles for low-risk software would stifle innovation.

The Health IT Policy Committee's 15 workgroups and subcommittees will be consolidated to six to better reflect the ONC's priorities, announced National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, at a July 8 HITPC meeting.

For the second year in a row, respondents to Physicians Practice Technology Survey said implementation and use of electronic health records is their top IT-related concern.

Although Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, N.H., was one of the first hospitals to attest to meaningful use stage 2, had it not been for a clerical error they may have been able to attest even sooner.

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

When selecting an electronic health record to implement, Jon Rains, CEO of Carrus Hospitals in Sherman, Texas, leveraged his personal experience to select a system that would be smoothly integrated into the workflow.

The following vendor contracts were reported within the past week.

The American Hospital Association has announced 2014's Most Wired Hospitals, as reported in its Hospitals & Health Networks publication. Hospitals can achieve Most Wired status by meeting specific requirements in four focus areas: infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality…

As the number of HIPAA violations increase, health IT consumers and providers should be extra aware of the potential penalties if one is found in violation of the privacy law.