NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has chosen the winners of its first "hackathon," an app development contest designed to find innovative ways to improve the patient experience.

Several hospitals and health systems around the country have begun exploring how to use the capabilities of Google Glass to improve patient care and streamline hospital operations.

Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has released the findings of a study that indicates health information exchange allows emergency departmentphysicians to treat patients more efficiently and effectively and could reduce unnecessaryhospital admissions.

HealthSource of Ohio has announced the personal, health and financial information of 8,800 patients was compromised when the health system put the patients' information into a Web-based software program that was not password-protected.

In April 2011, Robert Sumter, PhD, COO and CIO of Regional One Health in Memphis, Tenn., was leading his team on a hunt for a perioperative management solution that was optimized for documentation, coding and billing in the operating room…

Southfield, Mich.-based Community EMS, an ambulance and consulting company, has begun pilot-testing a mobile health initiative to use telemedicine to help paramedics assess the health of chronic disease patients who develop non-emergency health problems, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.

A patient whose personal information was contained on a computer stolen from a Los Angeles County health department contractor has filed a class-action lawsuit against both the contractor and the county itself.

The vast majority (97 percent) of senior IT executives are responsible for at least one area outside of the IT department, according to the 2014 HIMSS Leadership Survey.

Apps that help users track, remember and learn about their medication therapy can help older adults adhere to medication regimens, though training is often required and the apps must have a needed capability their current medication management system does not,…

A coalition of 12 patient advocacy groups has come forward to express concern over the Preventing Regulatory Overreach To Enhance Care Technology Act of 2014, which would limit the Food and Drug Administration's ability to regulate certain health IT products.