Physician electronic health record adoption is up 10 percent since last year, according to a recent report from SK&A.

Six senators have written FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, asking for clarification about the Food and Drug Administration's role in the regulation of health IT products.

The ONC has partnered with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response on a campaign to increase the use of heath IT by emergency medical technicians and other first responders.

The number and cost of healthcare data breaches declined from 2012 to 2013 according to the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security released by the Ponemon Institute.

A laptop stolen from Tucson, Ariz.-based St. Mary's Hospital contained the personal health information of 1,700 patients, according to an Arizona Daily Star report.

Here are 10 data breaches that occurred within the past month, starting with the most recent.

Americans own a total of 327 million mobile devices. These devices can be used as tools to help patients monitor their health, enable easier communication between physicians and between physicians and patients and to collect health data that can be…

Using data routinely entered into a patient's electronic health record, researchers at UC-Davis have developed an algorithm to predict sepsis cases earlier to allow for more prompt interventions.

Epic has the largest overall market share (10.8 percent) in the electronic health record market for physicians and has dominated the large-practice market, according to a recent report from SK&A.

Google Flu Trends seeks to measure flu activity in real time by tracking when Google users search for flu-related terms. Developed in 2008, the tool is based on the premise that flu patients will self-diagnose through a Google search before…