A proposed rule change in Tennessee would mandate in-person physician visits both precede and supplement telemedicine consults.

"I would say meaningful use stage 1, which is the most mature, has been very successful," National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, told attendees at the Crimson Clinical Advantage Summit 2014 Thursday, according to a report in InformationWeek.

IBM has announced three additional companies are developing apps using Watson's big data and natural language processing capabilities.

In 2013, 40 percent of hospitals nationally had exchanged clinical information electronically with another hospital, according to recent data from the ONC.

Irving, Texas-based Novation will host its annual Innovative Technology Expo on Sept. 10, featuring the latest innovation in healthcare technologies aimed to improve patient outcomes and healthcare worker safety, according to a news release.

In the Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Donna Thompson, RN, CEO and Julie Bonello, BSN, CIO of Chicago-based Access Community Health Network, discussed how they successfully incorporated health information technology into their organization in just four years…

In the Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Asher Kramer, national practice director strategic consulting at Leidos Health, an IT consulting company, discussed what CIOs need to do keep their organizations thriving in the current healthcare climate as…

Steve Jobs, quoted in Walter Isaacson's biography, described his company's goal: to maintain its unique position at the "intersection of technology and liberal arts." This vision allowed Jobs to capitalize on the tides of consumer activity and technological innovation that…

A new app uses crowdsourcing to notify credit card users of suspicious charges and also helps trace data breaches to their source, according to a Quartz report.

A new study from the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Symantec has found malicious or criminal attacks are the most costly type of data breach an organization can experience.