The American Academy of Neurology has released a position paper advocating for increased telemedicine access, equitable private and public insurance coverage for telemedicine services and streamlined state license processes and malpractice insurance coverage for physicians who practice telemedicine.

Six large regional health information exchanges have joined the Mid-State Consortium of Health Information Organizations, bringing the total number of member organizations to 23.

The Pebble smartwatch now includes a fitness and activity tracker from Misfit, makers of a tracking technology previously only available through the company’s proprietary wearable, Shine, according to a VentureBeat report.

The following stories about or of particular interest to hospital and health system CMIOs were published by Becker’s Hospital Review within the past month.

Cloud-based clinical and practice management software provider CareCloud has announced $25.5 million in debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital.

Healthcare providers are increasingly being encouraged, and even financially incented, to follow evidence-based treatment guidelines for their patients. However, what if guidelines don't exist? Or, what if certain, potentially effective, treatments may help, but evidence to support their use is…

Premier, a Charlotte, N.C.-based group purchasing organization with more than 3,000 hospital members, supports requiring healthcare data systems to have application programming interfaces.

  In recent years, the role of a CIO has changed from simply the head of the IT department to an increasingly indispensible member of a hospital's C-suite.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has announced plans to launch a fully integrated inter-network health information exchange system, beginning this summer.

The average CMIO's salary has increased over the past year, but CMIO job satisfaction has taken a dive during that same time period, according to survey results presented at the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems Physician-Computer Connection Symposium…