At least nine Boulder (Colo.) Foothills Hospital patients have received copies of their medical records in the mail that were sent to them by an anonymous whistle-blower, according to a Daily Camera report.

HHS has notified Walgreens that its Well Experience store model has the appropriate safeguards in place to protect patient privacy, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. 

A new report has been released as part of a series of trend reports that highlight trends in health IT systems, including the types of software program functionalities that are most important to healthcare organizations.

A new report from EY provides the following four steps for healthcare organizations to take in creating a sustainable telehealth program:

Just four hospitals[1] have attested to meaningful use stage 2, according to a presentation delivered Tuesday morning before ONC's Health IT Policy Committee.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed GaitTrack, a new app that monitors the walking patterns of chronic heart and lung patients and provides physicians with information about their cardiopulmonary,…

A new study published in the journal Health Affairs has found electronic health record data plays a significant role in interpreting CT head scans in emergency departments.

Nurses Week has its genesis in International Nurse Day, celebrated May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday. In 1990, the American Nurses Association expanded the observance to seven days, declaring May 6 to May 12 National Nurses Week.

As part of the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, 25 app developers have been using Watson's data processing capabilities to construct, test and refine their apps.

Electronic health record systems are the most prevalent in Hawaii, according to a new brief from the ONC.