Achieving meaningful use will require extensive training and time, which translates to big costs for providers. Approximately 62 percent of providers who already have or are planning to implement electronic health or medical records will spend more than 20 percent…

The Missouri Health Connection, a non-profit group, is one step closer to reaching its goal of developing a statewide health information exchange, according to a Kansas City Star news report.

Five healthcare organizations have jointly released the updated 2011 edition of "A Clinician’s Guide to Electronic Prescribing," a how-to guide to help healthcare professionals make informed decisions about how and when to transition from paper to e-prescribing systems.

The American Telemedicine Association has called on CMS to waive the restrictions on the Medicare telemedicine statute for new accountable care organizations.

There are now 17,000 applications for mobile devices to help patients manage their health, but insurers have been slow to provide coverage for them, according to a report by TMC Net.

As hospitals move to integrate images with electronic records, they are finding that their legacy imaging technologies and manual processes for sharing images leave them poorly positioned to respond to market forces such as the pressure to improve quality and…

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a website for healthcare providers offering evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine and treatments, according to an AHA News Now report.

AmkaiSolutions, a provider of electronic solutions to surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and practices and clinics, has announced its AmkaiCharts version 3.0 has received inpatient meaningful use certification and has been posted on the ONC Certified HIT Product List website.

The federal government’s new healthcare IT coordinator said it will be up to private markets to respond to growing demand for healthcare IT systems after massive federal incentives run out, according to a report by The Hill. Farzad Mostashari, national…

The National Institute for Standards and Technology will develop procedures for objectively evaluating the usability of electronic health records and other health IT, according to a Government Health IT news report.