The Alaska legislature has passed a bill that would allow physicians to diagnose or provide a prescription for patients either online or over the phone, according to a news release from the bill's sponsor.

A new study released by Mobiquity, a mobile engagement provider, has found 70 percent of people use some type of health or fitness app on a daily basis, but 60 percent of those app users do not share the data…

A nurse at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center has been charged with stealing patient information and using the information to steal the patients' identities, according to a Times Union report.

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.