Big news on the Meaningful Use Stage 3 front: The proposed rule has been sent to the Office of Management and Budget and will be published in the Federal Register upon review, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

The vast majority of states and the federal government fail to track how many Medicaid physicians use EHRs, reports Politico. 

Apple iOS 8/2, which was released in beta form to developers last week, contains notes indicating that blood glucose tracking will be included as a feature, reports Forbes.

The recent hack of Sony Corp. is bringing to light how much electronic health data proliferates outside of the medical setting, according to Bloomberg.  

Health Catalyst, a Utah-based data warehousing and analytics company, is partnering with Microsoft to deploy data warehouse and analytics solutions for the healthcare sector, according to Clinical Innovation + Technology.

Developers of wearable technology have had their fair share of reality checks recently, reports Forbes.

Mobile communications giant Blackberry and NantHealth, a cloud-based big data health company, have unveiled a clinical genome browser that gives physicians unprecedented access to patients’ genetic data on the BlackBerry Passport smartphone, reports VentureBeat. 

Despite taking in $600 million in federal investment, it remains uncertain whether the promised benefits of health information exchanges will be being realized, according to a RAND Corp. study.