HHS' Office for Civil Rights recently released the details of round two of its HIPAA compliance audit program, and in this round, any covered entity and any business associate of a covered entity are subject to the audits.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America and King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services both received smaller electronic health record incentive payments during the first quarter of 2014 than they did in the first quarter of 2013.

As of March, CMS has paid out $11.9 million in electronic health record incentive payments to eligible hospitals in 2014.

Bend the cost curve: Learning more about your patients can lead to higher quality care

A detailed look at the strategy behind North Shore-LIJ's $25M investment in interoperability.

Health IT has brought with it a host of mandates — from meaningful use to the support sunset of Windows XP to the ICD-10 transition and its ever-shifting deadline.

In collaboration with CHIME, Becker's Hospital Review's "Life of a Healthcare CIO" series features leading hospital and health system CIOs from across the country who are sharing their experiences, best practices and challenges.

The Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit and HIMSS have partnered to establish the Personal Connected Health Alliance. The PCHA is a nonprofit organization created to activate and connect consumers to healthcare, wellness and fitness by ensuring personal connected health technologies…

The following CIO appointments were announced in the past month, beginning with the most recent.

Electronic health record vendor Allscripts and MedFusion, which had been providing its online patient portal and other website solutions to 30,000 Allscripts clients, have ended their relationship following a payment dispute.