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By Wendy Almeida | 10:45 am | June 07, 2018
With CEO Jonathan Bush now out, should athenahealth accept activist investor Elliott Management's $6.5 billion takeover bid?
By Bernie Monegain | 10:15 am | June 07, 2018
Ajit Pai seeks immediate action to ramp up the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Health Care Program, which advances telehealth, for the first time since it started in 1997.
By Mike Miliard | 04:17 pm | June 06, 2018
The new technology enables hospitals to manage disparate data from various electronic health records. 
By Dave Muoio | 02:18 pm | June 06, 2018
Former Apple CEO John Sculley speaks at the BIO18 event about healthcare’s slow adoption of new technologies and its general aversion to risky innovations.
By Jessica Davis | 12:45 pm | June 06, 2018
House and Senate committees criticize department with essentially the same case sidelined Deputy CISO Leo Scanlon made in March.
By Mike Miliard | 11:08 am | June 06, 2018
The former global CTO for DaVita is the third recent big hire for HIMSS, joining a new chief clinical officer and executive VP of international.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:28 am | June 06, 2018
Bush’s exit comes as previous charges of sexual harassment and domestic abuse surface amid activist investor’s nearly $7 billion takeover bid.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:21 am | June 06, 2018
Cloud-based EHR vendor’s board could also drag the process out long enough that Elliott Management rescinds its offer, Maralto Investments said.
By Mike Miliard | 05:26 pm | June 05, 2018
AHIMA offers advice for using the new codes, created as part of the Quality Payment Program, which have begun being reported voluntarily this year.
By Jessica Davis | 04:59 pm | June 05, 2018
The breach was contained to hashed passwords and usernames, but the DNA testing service site didn’t waste time notifying its users of the security incident.