CHICAGO--athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush had some harsh words for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Meaningful Use and interoperability when speaking to Clinical Innovation + Technology during the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition.

Large-scale health data breaches have been steadily increasing, according a study by Kaiser Permanente published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

CHICAGO—A panel of leaders from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shared their recent accomplishments and future plans while diplomatically fielding questions about criticisms of the just-released Meaningful Use Stage 3 proposed rule.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced the availability of $1 million in grant funds to support community projects for the Community Interoperability Health Information Exchange Program. 

Informatics nurses are taking a greater role in healthcare delivery and have a significant impact on patient safety and overall care, as well as delivering workflow and productivity improvements. 

Most U.S. doctors are more proficient using EMRs than they were two years ago, but fewer believe that EMRs have improved treatment decisions, reduced medical errors or improved health outcomes.

Veratad Technologies, LLC, a world class provider of global age and identity verification solutions, announced today that it will be showcasing its suite of patient identity verification solutions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago (booth #7437), April 12-16, 2015.

Almost all (95 percent) of physicians surveyed have experienced a delay or difficulty delivering medical care because patients' medical records were not accessible to them. Those are the findings of a survey conducted by athenahealth of nearly 3,000 who use the Epocrates medical reference app.