The vast majority of American adults look online for health information, according to a survey from healthcare research and marketing firms Makovsky Health and Kelton.

Truven Health Analytics has acquired Fortel Analytics' healthcare fraud technology, which helps identify potentially suspicious claims patterns pre-payment.

When reading electronic notes in patients' electronic medical records, physicians focus mostly on the "Impression and Plan" section and have a tendency to skim the sections covering medications, vital signs and laboratory results, according to a study in Applied Clinical…

Austin, Texas-based Seton Northwest Hospital, part of Seton Healthcare Family, has notified patients their personal and health information was contained on a desktop computer device that was stolen from the hospital's sleep lab, according to a KTBC report.

After a patient authorization is signed, Vermont's new "global consent" policy will allow any physician connected to Vermont's Health Information Exchange to view the patient's information, even if the physician is not providing treatment or care to the patient, according…

Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic has been investing in population health management since 2006, when the then Carilion Health System transitioned to a clinic model and began to invest in developing capabilities needed to operate as an integrated delivery system, including…

The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council has announced the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange is now connected to three regional health information exchanges in downstate Illinois.

A team of researchers led by Scott Erven, manager of information security at Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, found the health system's medical devices ranging from drug infusion pumps to X-ray machines to electronic medical records are easier to hack into than…

HIMSS' Electronic Health Record Association, a coalition of EHR and related vendors, have written a letter to National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, urging the ONC to reconsider the voluntary 2015 Edition criteria.

Practice Fusion has partnered with Merck, a major vaccination vendor, to offer its clients a new population health tool within the Practice Fusion electronic health record system to track vaccinations among their adult patients and remind physicians during patient visits…