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.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC has partnered with analytics solutions provider Caradigm to develop a tablet-based platform that allows physicians to switch between UPMC's electronic health record system and other apps with patient information without re-searching for a particular patient.

Massachusetts is working to cut ties CGI Group, the health IT contractor responsible for the development of both Healthcare.gov and the state's health insurance exchange.

CMS has announced a four-year project to evaluate payments made through its Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing incentive programs, with the goal of identifying and recouping improperly awarded funds.

ArborMetrix is a performance measurement platform in the cloud, delivered under the SaaS model. The platform is focused on acute and specialty care, which still accounts for most of the healthcare spending in the country.

Glenwood, Colo.-based Valley View Hospital suffered a data breach when hackers introduced a virus into the hospital's computer system that took screenshots of 5,400 patients' personal records.

Almost half of consumers either do not believe they fully own their health data or do not care who owns it, according to a survey by the Health Data Exploration Project.

Central Illinois Health Information Exchange has added 30 long-term care facilities into its network since late 2013.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will enter its own electronic health record system into the competition to be selected as the Department of Defense's new EHR vendor.