National health IT coordinator David Blumenthal, MD, has delayed a panel vote on operational rules for the nationwide health information network, according to a Government Health IT news report.

Three Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System hospitals — Memorial Hermann Katy, Sugar Land and Southeast — have reached Stage 6 of seven stages of the HIMSS Analytics EMR adoption model, developed in 2005 as a method for evaluating the progress…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will give healthcare providers the ability to track the status of incentive payments online, a feature similar to the "Where's My Refund" feature on the Internal Revenue Service's income tax site, according to…

The California Department of Public Health has penalized six California hospitals and a nursing home with fines totaling more than $792,000 after determining the healthcare facilities failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information, according to a CDPH…

A study released by Beacon Partners, a healthcare management consulting firm, suggests that a majority of healthcare organizations and providers seeking to achieve meaningful use cite quality reporting as their biggest concern, according to a company news release.

A report published by research2guidance projects that 500 million people will be using mobile health applications on their smartphones by 2013, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

The first large-scale health record bank has been launched in Phoenix, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

A survey released by Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based electronic health record provider, showed that only 16 percent of surveyed physicians referred patients electronically and a larger majority of physicians are far more likely to refer patients over the phone,…

EDIMS, a Livingston, N.J.-based provider of interoperable emergency department information systems for hospitals, has received pre-market certification as an emergency department electronic health record system and full certification as an EHR module by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology,…

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Florida's AvMed Health Plans insurance company following a data breach that compromised the personal medical data of approximately 1.2 million patients, according to a news release by Edelson McGuire, a legal firm…