More than 40 hospitals and health systems across the country are urging federal officials to define certain terms outlining applicable recipients of incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's HITECH Act for adopting electronic health records, according to a…

New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City has established its Center for Digestive Care, which aims to provide high quality patient care, research and education for all aspects of digestive diseases, according to a Weill Cornell news…

Broadlane, a leading cost-management company for healthcare providers and supplier of technology-driven supply chain solutions, has partnered with OB10, a global e-Invoicing network, to offer a comprehensive electronic supply chain solution to its more than 1,000 acute-care hospital clients in…

Explorys, a newly formed company, has developed a search engine that will allow healthcare organizations to search an electronic database of de-identified patient data, according to a report by AMEDNews.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Iowa's Medicaid program is the first to receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…

While one-third of business associates were not aware they are now required to adhere to HIPAA privacy and security rules as though they were covered entities, 85 percent of hospital IT executives surveyed by HIMSS Analytics reported they were ready…

The National Quality Forum has announced the release of the Quality Data Set, a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients' quality of care, which provides a standardized set of data…

Mease Dunedin Hospital in Dunedin, Fla., is planning a new surgical and critical care unit that will expand neurosciences, orthopedics and spine care at the hospital, according to a report by Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Loma Linda University Medical Center is building a five-story, 106-bed hospital and a medical complex in Murrieta, Calif., according to a report in The Valley News.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule with request for comments on stricter penalties issued for HIPAA violations under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, according to an HHS release.