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…

Pharmaceutical companies are joining the mHealth app game, releasing apps offering patients a number of resources for engaging in their healthcare, such as managing medications, monitoring chronic conditions and tracking symptoms of illness treatments.