The online marketplaces for health coverage will go live in 2014, and the deadline for a state's exchange blueprint looms later this year.

Dark horse U.S. Senate candidate favored by Tea Party upsets Nebraska Republican primary race.

Jon Lindekugel, president of 3M Health Information Systems, speaks with Government Health IT about the newly open sourced health data dictionary and its potential implications for improving healthcare. Hint: Accurate, consistent, and complete clinical documentation.

To meet the demands of a growing healthcare industry, HIMSS offers advice for experienced informatics experts and novices to the health IT workforce alike.

Healthcare measures come from existing publicly available datasets and can be viewed by factors such as age, income level and ethnicity.

In a new report, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers outlines tactics for a successful transition to cloud computing.

The software-as-a-service is gaining traction among providers using electronic medical records. A new report from KLAS measures vendors by four key areas.

Until EHR vendors incorporate shared standards, HIEs will remain in stunted development, where most only exchange very simple data sets, according to a report from Chilimark Research.

Federal agencies have made considerable progress rooting out fraud and abuse of the healthcare system, yet much work remains. Roger Foster looks at how CMS can use big data tools to fight fraud and abuse at all levels.

ONC will use comments it receives to help develop a proposed rule on governing the nationwide health information network.

VA publishes notice of how it will protect data shared with DOD and private providers for virtual lifetime electronic record program.

Initially daunted by the prospect, Capt. Colleen Chianese realized that her unit in Kuwait needed a policy for maintaining EMRs, so they mapped one out. Capt. Chianese shares what she learned in so doing.

By 2015, many EHRs will have interfaces for telemedicine applications, but new national standards are needed to address the fragmentation in EHR and HL7 application, according to a recent panel.

Industry associations agree that anything more than one year is too long of a delay.

CMS will publish Medicare EHR payments recipients listings in PDF and CSV file formats to search and sort data.

The Web site, which includes more than 150 maps of ONC data, delivers information on HIT progress to the public.

The manual is meant to be an easy-to-understand instructional tool for physicians and their staff to integrate privacy and security into EHRs.

Sites including InTrade and FantasySCOTUS are declaring odds on which way the Supreme Court Justices will rule on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and, not surprisingly, those odds changed after the oral arguments.

What with health entities 'drowning in information but dying of thirst' the analysis of big data sets hold great promise. Here are half-a-dozen things to know now.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation senior program officer Michael Painter, MD, discusses how the meaningful use program is creating an electronic records and exchange infrastructure that stands to benefit public health.