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…

The following mHealth apps were recently launched and reported in the past week.

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.

HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell has named Jocelyn Samuels the director of HHS' Office for Civil Rights, according to a Health IT Security report.

The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee introduced bipartisan legislation requiring standardized data collection and assessment from post-acute healthcare providers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a clinical app for healthcare providers dealing with terrorist bombings and other mass casualty explosive events.

The majority of consumers — 80 percent — would like the option of interacting with healthcare providers via smartphones, according to a survey by FICO, a predictive analytics and decision management software company.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded ASM Research a three-year, $162 million contract to upgrade the system's electronic health record system, according to a news release.