A total of 225 breaches of patient health information have occurred since the interim final rule on breach notifications was issued in Aug. 2009 as part of the HITECH Act, according to a report released by Redspin, a provider of…

McKesson Quality eMeasures and Clinical Performance Analytics solutions have received the federal government's "meaningful use" approval by earning the electronic health record certification, according to a company news release.

Results of a HIMSS ICD-10/5010 Readiness Survey show that one-third of respondents reported not being prepared for 5010 compliance, which is the latest version of standards for the conversion of electronic health records, according to a HIMSS news release.

A panel of medical experts from the University of Pennsylvania, Cooper University Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital share their thoughts on the risk of CT radiation in emergency departments for patients with belly pain and how electronic medical records…

The University of California, San Francisco has officially opened its $123 million stem cell center, according to a UCSF news release. The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF was paid for with…

A former commercial pilot and obstetrician/gynecologist from Las Vegas have teamed together to apply lessons from aviation safety to healthcare setting, including hospital operating rooms, according to a Las Vegas Sun news report.

The market for laboratory information systems in the clinical laboratory is expected to grow 6 percent annually in the next few years, according to a study released by Kalorama Information.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has announced it will award another $12 million to regional extension centers to assist critical-access and rural hospitals in achieving meaningful use of health IT and electronic medical records, according to…

Over the next four years the practice of nursing will change dramatically as hospitals transition from paper to digital records in order to meet meaningful use requirements of electronic health records under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Based on…

The Coriell Institute for Medical Research is partnering with Ohio State University Medical Center physicians to incorporate genetic risk information into their patients’ electronic medical records, according to a news release. The incorporation of genomic data will be done through…