The growing use of telemedicine across the country has prompted state legislatures to craft regulations to help govern the use of the relatively new practice.

Approximately 1.04 billion prescriptions were routed through the Surescripts network in 2013, representing about 58 percent of all eligible prescriptions written last year.

The ONC's list of electronic health record systems and EHR modules that meet 2014 Edition criteria now contains 1,160 products after hundreds were added in recent months.

Cleveland Clinic has entered into a partnership with health IT firm HealthSpot to offer telemedicine kiosks in a variety of nontraditional locations, expanding access to care.

Healthcare Informatics named ArborMetrix a 2013 Up-and-Comer.

A proposed rule published Tuesday would give providers more flexibility in attesting to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting period.

In the Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Marion Jenkins, PhD, executive vice president-healthcare at 3t Systems, discussed the top 10 game changers in health information technology.

Physician groups and hospitals pursuing meaningful use can have surprises crop up from three main sources — audits, vendors and employees — according to Sharon Stewart, senior consultant in clinical IT with Quorum Health Resources.

Philips Healthcare's Hospital to Home Group has announced the launch of eCareManager 4.0, a software platform that powers the company's telehealth programs and expands its telehealth capabilities into acute care.

In August 2013, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission did something usually done by HHS' Office for Civil Rights — it accused a healthcare company of failing to adequately protect consumers' health information following a data breach.