Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, has unveiled a production version of HL7's FHIR(R) standard that is being tested in the Cerner Millennium(R) electronic health record.

HIMSS has named two organizations as winners of 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Awards.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has issued the final version of the Interoperability Roadmap, which “lays out the milestones, calls to action and commitments that public and private stakeholders should focus on achieving,” according to a blog post authored by National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, and Erica Galvez, ONC’s Interoperability and Exchange Portfolio Manager.

The final rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 is out and addressed concerns regarding reporting burden, interoperability and reporting periods. 

Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has yet to finalize a rule to ease compliance with Stages 1 and 2 of Meaningful Use, the American Medical Association is calling on the agency to create an automatic hardship exemption for physicians who did not have the opportunity to report successfully this year.

As a team member for the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, Orion Health™ is pleased to be part of the team that has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) off-the-shelf solution, integration activities and deployment across the Military Health System. 

Healthcare entities experience 340 percent more hacking and other privacy attacks, according to a report from Raytheon|Websense Security Labs.

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has joined other calls for a delay in the Meaningful Use program.