A consistent rise in physician overrides of drug allergy alerts in electronic health records (EHRs) highlights an urgent need for increased efforts to help reduce alert override rates and alert fatigue among doctors, according to results of a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Company Demonstrates Integration of Images Captured by Mobile Devices; Capabilities of Vendor-Neutral Physician Viewer and Patient Portal Modules.

Patients with fully electronic health records experienced fewer adverse events such as hospital-acquired infections, according to a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) has finalized the criteria for Cloud-Enabled Accreditation Program (CEAP) along with the accreditation achievements of three cloud-computing vendors: FIGmd; HealthcarePays Network; and MedicaSoft.

The Senate health committee kicked off the first of three committee meetings on its biomedical innovation agenda by passing seven bills with bipartisan support. The next meeting is scheduled for March 9, where the committee will debate and vote on at least five bipartisan bills.

Bloomberg BNA has issued its 2016 outlook on the top health law issues facing health lawyers, compliance officers and healthcare organizations.

The U.K. government is launching a $5.7 billion effort to turn England's National Health Service into a paperless service and update its outdated technology, including getting rid of fax machines, according to the BBC.