Chicago-based Assisted Living Concepts has notified current and former employees that a hacker has accessed the company's payroll records.

The number of criminal attacks on healthcare systems has increased a startling 100 percent since 2010, according to the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security released by the Ponemon Institute.

As the deadline for ICD-10 conversion draws closer, healthcare providers, payers and others are buckling down to train staff members, conduct testing and prepare for a successful transition to the new system.

Approximately 75 percent of the 298 hospital and health system senior-level IT executives surveyed for the 2014 HIMSS Leadership Survey expect their organization will attest to meaningful use stage 2.

Google is poised to beat rival Apple into the wearables market, announcing this week the company will begin selling a smartwatch running the Android OS later this year.

Authorized and funded by the HITECH Act, the country's 62 Regional Extension Centers aim to help small physician practices and small and critical access hospitals adopt health IT and attest to meaningful use.

Stamford (Conn.) Hospital has been recognized with HIMSS Analytics' Stage 7 Award, the highest level of electronic medical record progress a hospital or health system can attain.

Continuous electronic monitoring of patients in a medical-surgical unit was associated with decreased lengths of stay and a reduction in code blue events, according to a study in the American Journal of Medicine.

Health IT has the ability to not only improve physicians' workflows and care quality but nurses' as well, according to a new report from Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.

Dr. Timothy Maus of the Mayo Clinic will discuss the use of sedatives for interventional pain management at Becker’s 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference.