The American College of Surgeons is launching an online community to support thousands of U.S. surgeons who practice in sparsely populated areas.

Personal pay stub data of some UMass Memorial Healthcare employees was exposed to unauthorized access for five months during a computer access breach, according to a Telegram & Gazette report.

Although nearly 80 percent of ambulatory providers that have purchased an electronic medical record are confident they will qualify for meaningful use in 2011, a closer look at their implemented functionalities reveals most providers still have significant holes to fill,…

Researchers suggest electronic health record alerts may pose some significant challenges to timely follow-up with patients, according to research published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Here are 10 recent findings impacting the anesthesia community, according to reports from various anesthesia journals, conferences and societies.

Healthcare providers in Virginia have partnered in a pilot program that integrates two health data exchange models, according to a news release.

Health IT officials, who believe the government's job is to lay a foundation for health IT innovation, are calling on the private sector to produce solutions and applications for some of the healthcare industry's toughest problems, including waste, according to…

A Health IT Policy Committee panel said stage 2 meaningful use should include a "spotlight" on the technical measures healthcare providers take to ensure security of health data, according to a Government Health IT news report.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently released several teaching tools to physicians to improve identification and treatment of patients suffering from substance abuse, according to an Anesthesiology News report.

Dentist anesthesiologists produce 10 percent of anesthesia research related to dentistry, though they represent only 1.5 percent of dentists who actively contribute to anesthesia research, according to a study published in Anesthesia Progress.