The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a roundtable event Tuesday to discuss how Congress can strike the best balance between regulatory concerns and the promotion of healthcare technology and innovation.

According to a HIMSS survey, the average hospital's IT budget is increasing. However, this increase is most often due to the overall growth of IT systems in the organizations and the costs of meeting regulatory requirements, and leaving little room…

It's not just large, multi-state systems that innovate.

  According to data CMS released earlier this month, a total of 75 hospitals have attested to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting year, and eight of those have attested to meaningful use stage 2.

In fiscal year 2013, 608,900 patients in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and community-based outpatient clinics received care through VA telehealth services, equaling a total of approximately 1,790,000 telehealth episodes of care, according to a Telehealth Services in the United States…

Currently, about 61 percent of all U.S. physicians use electronic health record software, according to a new infographic from the Berkeley (Calif.) School of Information.

NextGen Healthcare and 3M have partnered to offer a Web-based ICD-10 training program to stakeholders throughout the healthcare industry.

  San Francisco-based Dignity Health has expanded its northern California telestroke network to two additional hospitals, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, Calif., and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta (Calif.).

Nearly 83 percent of healthcare providers currently use cloud-based services, and 9 percent indicate plans to start using cloud-based services, according to the inaugural HIMSS Analytics Cloud Survey.

When she felt the onset of symptoms of what would be her third transient ischemic attack, Stacey Yepes pulled out her smartphone and recorded the episode, describing the sensation to the camera. Physicians at a Toronto hospital were able to…