The organizations delivered on its promise to make freely available iterations of its standards and intellectual property, a move that CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, says will "accelerate the evolution of health information exchange."

The proposed legislation aims to create a hardship exemption for small physician practices struggling to meet meaningful use measures.

Much like learning how to ride a bike, the early experience with electronic health records involves falls and scrapes. And as the industry turns its focus toward more usable EHRs, we should look beyond just making health IT systems simpler.

The idea of paying for citizens who qualify for Medicaid to buy private insurance has been in place for more than a decade in Oregon. The results are mixed.

As state insurance exchanges prepare for October enrollment, they're also finalizing financing sources, or in some places still considering their options.

Allscripts is partnering with the Singapore Ministry of Health's IT organization to develop new medication, mobile and analytic systems for the country's health systems and possibly providers elsewhere in Asia.

Attorneys from Hinshaw & Culbertson on the complex issues that meaningful use and EHR adoption are giving rise to.

The program's goal is to "ensure providers can always offer high-quality care while reducing costs," one participating CEO explained.

A healthcare price transparency bill being considered in the North Carolina Senate would require hospitals to post the prices for the 50 most common care episodes on the NC Health Information Exchange.

Corepoint offers a new iteration of its Integration Engine in the same week that Caradigm aligned with Orion to bolsters its health information exchange roster.

A new report from the International Federation of Health Plans found the greatest cost differences between the U.S. and other countries apply to hospital stays and surgical procedures.

Now that the HIPAA final rule kicked in, providers and their business associates should prepare for government agencies to crack down on breaches.

The Advisory Board Co. found a pattern of hospitals using incentives to fund future investments in information technologies.

The U.K.'s NHS and the VHA are both looking to digital health tools to improve care for aging patients managing chronic conditions. The U.K. think tank 2020health hopes the two systems can learn from each other.

Urban Institute researchers estimate that about half of the nation's 1.3 million uninsured veterans could remain without coverage in states that don't expand Medicaid.

An encrypted laptop containing PHI was stolen and, as such, Oregon Health & Science University is notifying patients.

The NIH has appointed biochemist Jon Lorsch, a pioneer in RNA translation research, to lead the Institute of General Medical Sciences.

As the Office of Civil Rights takes stock of its audit pilot program, it's reaching out to the 115 covered entities audited last year to get a sense of the costs, benefits and overall compliance impact.

Pulse8 CEO John Criswell sees plenty of opportunity to harness the information that HIXs and HIEs will have as a means for both bending the cost curve and bettering care quality.

Two words: systemic change. That's according to Lumeris vice president Jim Hansen, who gazes ahead to ACO 2.0.