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By Bernie Monegain | 08:28 am | August 22, 2016
Healthcare IT News travelled to Epic’s campus to learn how the company thinks about design and usability. Takeaway: Health IT is hard. One vice president even said that if she wanted an easier job she could just go to Facebook. 
By Mike Miliard | 10:05 pm | August 21, 2016
HHS initiative to re-focus on incidents affecting fewer than 500 patients.
By Henry Powderly | 05:03 pm | August 19, 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that the grace period will end as planned and come Oct. it will end the flexibilities it granted hospitals and coders thus far.
By Jessica Davis | 04:23 pm | August 19, 2016
The notorious virus is running rampant through global phishing campaigns to a wide range of industries, but U.S. healthcare is ground zero.
By Jessica Davis | 12:09 pm | August 19, 2016
Florida Department of Health officials say they believe active transmissions are still only happening within the initial one-square mile in Miami-Dade, identified on July 29.
By Mike Miliard | 11:53 am | August 19, 2016
Stanford clinicians shine a light on how today's products are missing out on big opportunities.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:15 am | August 19, 2016
The funding, which comes from Affordable Care Act, will go toward quality improvement efforts that engage patients and improve care coordination.
By Bill Siwicki | 08:58 am | August 19, 2016
A pair of population health programs are already reducing non-emergent visits to emergency departments in Louisiana. At the heart of that success are patients tapping technologies and data to manage their health.
By Jeff Lagasse | 03:47 pm | August 18, 2016
Officials in Arkansas are in talks to change the rule prohibiting direct-to-consumer telehealth consults. In Texas, meanwhile, the e-Health Alliance is driving legislation to mandate that licensing boards coordinate appropriate rules. 
By Bernie Monegain | 03:11 pm | August 18, 2016
Health IT companies on the magazine’s annual roster specialize in a variety of products and services from analytics and cognitive computing to security management.