Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth has released its 2014 PayerView report, a ranking of private and government payers garnered from the company's cloud-based databank of national network providers.

  On Monday, Apple introduced HealthKit, a mobile platform that combines data from other health-tracking apps and displays composite information in a dashboard format through a new app, simply called Health.

In a May 21 CIO Senior Leadership Series webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, Lee Carmen, CIO of University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City and David Chou, CIO of University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, provided insight and…

GE Healthcare has announced it will partner with Real Time Medical, a workflow management software solutions developer, to provide pathologists solutions that facilitate coordination.

Implementing a medication reconciliation tool in a hospital's electronic medical record can help reduce the number of medication errors by nearly 60 percent, according to a study at Boston Children's Hospital.

  The majority of pediatric hospitalists — 91 percent — use smartphones, and nearly 60 percent sent or received work-related text messages on their personal smartphones, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health.

Computer hackers have "gained entry" to a Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services server, potentially compromising patient data.

Smart Health Hero, an app that uses Medicare claims data to help users make better decisions about their health, has won the ONC's second annual Code-a-Palooza challenge.

Hospitals working toward meaningful use attestation often implement electronic health record parts and functions in a different order than hospitals not as focused on meaningful use, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Where Does It Hurt?, a call for revamping the American healthcare system through new payment and business models as well as new technology from athenahealth CEO and cofounder Jonathan Bush, reached No. 6 on last week's New York Times bestseller…