A bill recently introduced into the Iowa House of Representatives would provide clarity to regulatory questions regarding telemedicine that have been raised across the country — what, if any, additional licensure would be required for telemedicine physicians, and how telemedicine…

Jacob Reider, MD, has agreed to serve as acting principal deputy national coordinator at the ONC, as well as continue to serve as ONC's CMO.

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An employee laptop containing the personal information of 826 patients was stolen from a vehicle at an Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare clinic.

North Carolina-based Cornerstone Health Care has alerted more than 500 patients after a laptop containing patients' personal information was stolen from Cornerstone Neurology, one of its practice locations.

The following stories on the health IT market were reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the past month, beginning with the most recent.

Spurred on by federal incentives, electronic health record adoption in ambulatory settings has grown significantly. However, usability issues that often necessitate physician workarounds have slowed adoption, and will continue to do so unless EHR vendors modify their products to better…

The Health IT Policy Committee has approved the meaningful use workgroup's recommendations for stage 3, which have been reduced by about one-third from what the workgroup presented in February.

CMS has released an updated application for meaningful use hardship exceptions, providing clarification on the new requirements for obtaining an exception and avoiding financial penalties for failure to attest in 2014.

Black Book Rankings has released two reports identifying the best electronic health record systems for hospitals of varying sizes. The rankings were compiled based on user ratings in 18 operational areas from 22,059 users.