Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of real-time location system services, has announced that it ended 2010 with 91 contracted hospital sites, totaling more than 45-million-square-feet of RTLS network coverage and more than 135,000 healthcare assets under management, according to an Awarepoint…

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has released new standards for its Patient-Centered Medical Home program, which is aligned with meaningful use and can help primary care physicians adopt health IT in order to achieve incentive payments, according to an…

Physicians and patients overwhelmingly agree on key requirements for information technology to increase the quality, safety, cost-efficiency of care and core privacy protections, according to a press release by the Markle Foundation.

The Office of the National Coordinator has awarded $80 million in funding to boost meaningful use initiatives, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

Mobile devices are being used in the healthcare space in increasing numbers because the benefits of using mobile devices are many — the emergence of mobile applications allows physicians to easily connect with patients and deliver care in a more…

Electronic data breach insurance for physicians has emerged in the past few years, as state and federal authorities set down notification requirements and fines for noncompliance, according to a report by the American Medical News.

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will be expanding the number of data categories that federal agencies will make public to spur health IT innovation, according to a Government Health IT news report.

A bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by Republican members seeks to repeal the electronic health records meaningful use program created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009, though it has not yet been ascertained whether…

The United States Department of Agriculture awarded 45 healthcare organizations $34.7 million in grants through its Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

At a conference sponsored by eHealth Initiative, physicians expressed concern over their struggle to identify which supporting technologies will help them achieve meaningful use in order to qualify for incentive payments, according to a Healthcare IT News report.