Kat Jercich

While "EHRs have known shortcomings," coordinated data initiatives and better interoperability can create a truly effective health IT infrastructure, say technology leaders from 15 academic medical centers.

HealthTree founder Jenny Ahlstrom, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma a decade ago, said policy changes that have facilitated access to virtual care should remain permanent.

Clinical decision support and hospital resource-management are particularly important as patient numbers begin to increase again, two new JAMA studies show.

The artificial kidneys can be wearable, implanted, bioengineered, developed as a xenotransplant or chimera organ, or created using a different approach.

The fines are the latest effort on OCR's part to enforce HIPAA regulations around protected health information.

A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 1.6 million telehealth encounters occurred via four major vendors from January through March.

The health system is working with the FBI to investigate the incident, which took down access to the MyChart Patient Portal.

Of the 15 cities examined, Cleveland had the highest rate of hospitals that reported the ability to find, send, receive and integrate electronic health information with sources outside their health system, according to a new report from ONC.  

A new report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis examines the readmission patterns for patients discharged from Massachusetts acute care hospitals.            

Such a regulation would assist providers with implementing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the longer term.