The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to spend $144 million in grant money to help college and universities train healthcare IT workers starting next fall, according to a report by ComputerWorld.

No one said implementing an electronic medical record was going to be easy. Patrick Murfee, director of information technology at Hemphill County Hospital, a small, rural hospital in Canadian, Texas, shares three challenges in the implementation process and how to…

Donald Berwick, MD, appointed chief of Medicare and Medicaid during last week's Congressional recess and sworn in on July 12, briefed the press on electronic medical records on his first day of work, according to a report by The Boston…

Following the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services release of finalized "meaningful use" requirements that providers must meet to quality for incentive payments, hospitals are becoming more anxious about successfully implementing an…

In its final rule release yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have significantly eased requirements for providers planning to adopt, following complaints that regulations were too strict, according to a report by The Hill.

Last August the Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule implementing its requirements of notification for breaches of unsecured protected health information. Before the rule went into effect on Sept. 23, 2009, healthcare providers were not…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced final rules to support "meaningful use" of EHR, according to a news release from HHS.

More primary care physicians and specialist doctors are using EHR and other healthcare IT, and more than half own smart phones, according to a study by survey research company Knowledge Networks in conjunction with the Physician Consulting Network.

Syed Ishaq, vice president for business development at Somnia Anesthesia Services in New Rochelle, N.Y., offers five observations on anesthesia in ASCs.

A proposed federal rule would mean steep fines for U.S. companies that partner with hospitals if they disclose private patient information, according to a report by Reuters.