As a part of the OpenNotes initiative, nine prominent health systems and physician practices in the northwestern U.S. have collaborated to provide patients access to the physician notes included in their electronic medical records.

Local voters have rejected a ballot measure that would have raised about $9 million for St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette, La., to implement an electronic medical record system, purchase new billing software and hire additional clinical staff members.

What type of healthcare technology will be poised for growth under value-based care and what types will face difficulty?

Last year, physicians at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente received approximately 13 million secure emails from patients. That number is more than the number of visits to Kaiser clinics for the year, said Megan Zimmerman, chief of staff for health plan…

Dallas-based MD Buyline has released its "User Satisfaction Trending" report, an analysis of medical technology suppliers' performance in six categories: system performance, system reliability, installation/implementation, application training, service response time and service repair quality.

A recent survey conducted by the eHealth Initiative and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives revealed while 80 percent of CIOs and other healthcare executives believe data analytics are important to their organizations' strategic goals, 84 percent said using…

The number of healthcare-specific consumer scores with hidden underlying factors and data sources has grown in the past seven years and more are on the way, according to a new report from San Diego-based World Privacy Forum.

Researchers from Birmingham Women's Hospital in the United Kingdom have found swapping traditional methods of filling out forms on paper for tablets or laptops saves physicians an hour a day during rounds.

  About one-third (35 percent) of healthcare organizations offer a consumer-facing app, according to HIMSS Analytics' Mobile Survey.

As of Tuesday, Microsoft has ended support for its Windows XP operating system. Here's what healthcare providers need to know: