HHS, through the ONC, has initiated a challenge for healthcare providers to submit the electronic health record tools they use to combat high blood pressure.

When it comes to taking care of personal data, smartphone users are more likely to trust hospitals than other industries, according to a survey administered by FICO, an analytics software company.

Investors have already poured more money into digital health companies between January and June of this year than they did in all of 2013.

HIMSS Analytics has named Siemens a certified educator of its DELTA Powered Analytics Assessment, a benchmark tool designed to measure hospitals' analytics maturity.

A new proposal from members of the Federation of State Medical Boards would make it easier for physicians to apply for and receive medical licenses in other states, lessening a major barrier to the widespread practice of telemedicine.

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act began funneling money into health adoption in 2009, and in 2011 providers could begin to receive incentive payments from CMS for the adoption and use of electronic health records.

CMS' annual proposed modifications to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule include an expanded list of services for which Medicare will reimburse eligible physicians.

For a company with a mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," there is one industry in which Google co-founders are less enthusiastic about doing so: healthcare. This indifference isn't overwhelmingly apparent. The tech…

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The clinical team at the Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at St. Joseph's Health Care London in Ontario, Canada, has developed a diabetes-specific electronic medical record, according to a Hospital News report.