HIMSS Analytics has listed a total of 55 hospitals that are deemed Stage 7 hospitals on the organization's EMR Adoption Model.

In a recent survey, smaller majorities of physicians identified benefits of electronic health records than the same survey a year before, according to a release from athenahealth. In the survey, by athenahealth and the online physician community Sermo, 64 percent…

Approximately 4.9 million individuals had their personal health information compromised as a result of 166 data breaches that occurred during the first year of the HITECH Act, according to a white paper by Kaufman, Rossin & Co.

Only 14 percent of patients said they get their medical records electronically from their physician's office, and 30 percent don't know why they would need to, indicating a need for hospitals to incorporate patient input earlier to comply with Stage…

A majority of healthcare organizations cite the need to ensure regulatory compliance, plan for disaster recovery and support new applications and systems as the three leading business priorities driving health IT spending decisions this year, according to results from a…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is teaming up with GE Healthcare and the Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services to test the utilization of health alerts to physicians, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified practical strategies to implement environmentally friendly practices in operating rooms and other hospital facilities that could result in vastly reduced health care costs and pose no risk to patient safety, according to a…

Many hospitals and practices have been putting off IT upgrades for the conversion to ICD-10 diagnosis codes in 2013, according to the Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Blog.

Web-based practice management, EHR and patient communication services company athenahealth recently announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft to launch a new electronic health solution, according to a company news release.

The United States Government Accountability Office has released a report suggesting CMS' e-prescribing and electronic health records incentive programs have inconsistent requirements, although both programs use similar technology and reporting requirements.