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.

The number of reported HIPAA violations is on the rise. HHS' Office for Civil Rights received 10,454 HIPAA violation complaints in 2012, the highest number of complaints to that point, according to the OCR's latest Annual Report to Congress on…

Because the digital transformation has happened so quickly in healthcare, many providers are still operating and planning under false impressions of what consumers expect in terms of technology and what the future technological landscape will look like.

Earlier this year, the ONC, the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration have released a proposed strategy and framework for the regulation of health IT products. The proposed regulatory strategy would divide health IT products into three categories with…

Medicity and Informatics Corporation of America are the first two vendors to complete Healthway's health information exchange product testing program and become validated vendors.

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…