This week, Ashville, N.C.-based Mission Health held the inaugural Humanizing Healthcare Technologies conference, bringing together more than 180 attendees to discuss how patient-friendly technology can improve healthcare delivery.

More than half (55 percent) of providers do not bill either private payers or federal health programs for services performed via telemedicine, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health.

With the help of $40,000 in grants from several Farm Credit organizations, Minneapolis-based Allina Health will begin offering remote cardiology services to patients at the RC Hospital in rural Olivia, Minn.

Castlight Health, the big data company that made headlines in March when its initial public offering valued the company at more than $2 billion, has given the healthcare industry a glimpse into its data capabilities with a new map showing…

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, a professional organization for CMIOs and other informatics leaders, have expanded their partnership to increase resources and support for CMIOs.

The American Medical Association has adopted a new telemedicine policy generally supporting its adoption and use.

In recent years, the role of CIO has transformed from mainly an IT leader to the member of the executive team who spearheads the use of technology and other tools to meet the organization's goals.  

Almost half (43 percent) of hospitals plan to provide clinicians and staff with additional mobile tools in the next year, according to a survey from HIMSS Analytics.

  Shortly after Wichita, Kan.-based Via Christi Health went live on a new electronic health record system, the organization began to receive complaints the new system was causing excessive wait times, according to a KSN report.

Telemedicine-focused industry groups and a coalition of accountable care organizations have written a series of letters to new HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell urging her to use her authority to waive restrictions that inhibit the use of telemedicine in accountable…