By 2012, about 90 percent of federally qualified health centers had an electronic health record system. However, just a third of FQHCs had an EHR that met core meaningful use stage 1 requirements, according to a study in Health Affairs.

In response to the Food and Drug Administration's proposed framework for the regulation of health IT products, National Nurses United is calling on CMS to halt the meaningful use program to stop the rapid adoption of a technology the national…

  The American Hospital Association's magazine, Hospitals & Health Networks, has recognized hospitals and health systems across the country for their exemplary use of health IT.

Cincinnati-based St. Elizabeth Physicians has started offering consultations with primary care physicians through an online forum, according to a Cincinnati Business Courier report.

HIMSS, in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, has released a toolkit for public health departments to better understand health information exchanges.

Here are five things to know about the computerized physician order entry market, according to a MicroMarket Monitor news release.

San Francisco-based Blue Shield of California is notifying 18,000 physicians and healthcare providers whose Social Security numbers were mistakenly made public, according to a ComputerWorld report.

From the compliance date of the HIPAA Privacy Rule on April 14, 2003 to Dec. 31, 2012, HHS' Office of Civil Rights received 77,190 complaints alleging violations of HIPAA rules, according to the OCR's latest Annual Report to Congress on…

A significant number of HIPAA complaints are not actual violations under the law, according to HHS' Office of Civil Rights' latest Annual Report to Congress on HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule Compliance.

As health IT proliferates in hospitals, so do potential patient safety issues. The ECRI Institute and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation have compiled a list of five health IT issues that should have the attention of hospital…