The health information exchange model is metamorphosing from its initial phase of Direct secure messaging and patient look-up toward a new age of value-added services that one HIE director believes "will have a profound effect on healthcare," quality across America.

VA did not disclose which devices would get the go-ahead but will focus on a "particular set of very popular devices," VA CIO says.

They're sleek, sure, and many mobile health apps get downloaded. Whether or not patients keep using them is another matter.

A new document from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provides guidance on claims submissions for care that needs to be coded in both ICD-9 and ICD-10.

Checklists vary by organization, but these five steps help health entities better understand where they are on the road to ICD-10.

The time between Stage 1 final rule and the deadline was too short, argues a group of healthcare associations – adding that agendas are even more crammed now than they were then.

The agencies are harnessing health technologies to improve doctor-patient interaction by reaching patients – and their health problems – right where they reside. Here’s how they plan to transform that from buzzword into better care.

TransforMED, VHA, Phytel will help 15 provider communities in 15 states to redesign their practices, coordinate care and reduce costs in CMS Innovation Center pilot.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft road map for cloud computing that includes a list of high-priority needs designed to "accelerate U.S. government adoption" and to foster innovation.

Integrated mobile health technologies that send and receive patient information will drive prevention focus and better enable personal health management, but also produce a "data tsunami."

How to understand and forecast possible financial implications of the pending code sets to put a risk mitigation plan in place and, ultimately, safeguard against revenue losses during the conversion.

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

The Department of Homeland Security touted the Department of Veterans Affairs as a good example of how to mitigate medical device security risks in a bulletin this week.

Taconic IPA's Dr. John Blair discusses putting in place the technical tools and practice procedures as the first step toward more effective and coordinated patient care, in the first of a two-part series.

CDC intends to identify standards and develop requirements for syndromic surveillance using EHR clinical data from health information exchanges.

ONC also plans prototypes for standards and services to be able to distribute queries for population health information and to segment sensitive data from disclosure.

Make no mistake: Whichever way the Supreme Court rules will have implications on the healthcare industry. Lawyers from Arent Fox weigh in on what some of the changes might be.

In the final episode of his six-part series on bolstering public health with big data, Roger Foster looks toward big data's promise of preventing health conditions, and outlines some of the challenges, notably the need for data scientists.

A limited number of users are testing the graphical user interface at DOD's and VA's medical centers in Honolulu, with North Chicago to start a GUI pilot during the summer.

As the National Institutes of Health sees its budget cut 5 percent by federal sequester, the biomedical research community says Congress's inaction threatens to delay medical innovations and critical public health monitoring.