Electronic health record technology alone will not be sufficient to implement accountable care, according to a new report from IDC Health Insights. It has released a five-stage Accountable Care Maturity Model designed to help healthcare organizations gauge where they are in the process and make str...

The healthcare industry has been increasingly under attack, specifically the cyber kind, during the past two years. Cybercriminals have started shifting their target of attack towards healthcare organizations because of many reasons. Healthcare organizations and their databases represent a treasure ...

Personal health records represent a faster, more patient-friendly method for health information exchange than actual HIE solutions, according to David Mendelson, a professor of radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Mendelson, speaking at the Information Management Network Hospital Cl...

The Indiana Health Information Exchange, looking to generate revenue for continued sustainability, is creating a for-profit subsidiary company that will take advantage of software licensed from the Regenstrief Institute for use outside of the Hoosier State. The new venture, announced late last week...

Six Republican senators are asking the healthcare community for input on “recalibrating” health information technology policy, arguing that there are several problems with the current trajectory of the meaningful use program. In a white paper titled “Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed...

Emergency room access to a patient's medical history compiled through health information exchange reduced both readmissions and single-day admissions in a study from Israel. The study tracked whether ED physicians looked at patient medical histories after an information system was installed linking...

In the new world of healthcare -- one that is focused on collaboration, accountability, providing better care and cutting costs-Aetna executives view the insurer's newly minted Healthagen division, unveiled last month at HIMSS13, as an indispensable piece of getting things right. They describe Heal...

  Providing patients with access to the information in their electronic health records "overwhelmingly" yielded positive benefits, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. While patient review of their health data is an opportunity to engage them in their healthcare...

At the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Wednesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, announced plans to accelerate health information exchange in the the U.S. "Thanks to the ...

New Orleans, March 4, 2013 – Top healthcare information technology (HIT) companies Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth announced today the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance™, planned to be an independent not-for-profit organization t...