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As the electronic health record becomes "just another app," more and more providers are setting their sights on an array of complex future needs. An IDC Health Insights report sees big changes coming for care delivery in 2014 and beyond.
A fistful of kinks need to be worked out before social media can truly help patients with chronic diseases.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former accountant at healthcare IT company Allscripts with insider trading, trades he's alleged to have conducted through his wife's account. The SEC alleges the violations occurred in April 2012 -- a time when the company was disarray.
Last October and November, as HealthCare.gov struggled to accommodate visitors and offer its promised user experience, HHS staff and contractors were, among other fixes, "adding server capacity" -- suggesting that the U.S. CTO's goals of technological innovation remain to be seen in health programs.
Kurt DelBene, longtime Microsoft executive, now the successor to Jeff Zients, the tech-surge czar at the Department of Health and Human Services gives his first detailed interview on what it's going to take to shore Healthcare.gov.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology will stop offering ONC testing and certification services. Instead, CCHIT will work toward increased IT interoperability by counseling providers and developers on certified EHR requirements, the group announced Jan. 29.
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium is working with Edifecs to provide ICD-10 collaborative testing for many of the state's health plans and provider organizations. The MHDC's Collaborative Testing Program participants will have access to Edifecs' testing tools and team of experts.
Six-year-old Health Catalyst has not only landed $41 million in a third round of funding, but also has lured two of the big-name health systems in the country to implement its data warehousing and analytics technology.
An IT network failure at a Florida health system put the organization's $80 million Epic electronic medical record system down for the count this past week. The outage, officials reported, lasted nearly two days.
New national coordinator reveals that there has been "some internal thinking" about how ONC and other federal agencies might better align the spectrum of rules and regulations.