Getting patients' socioeconomic status and behavioral health information into EHRs should be part of Meaningful Use Stage 3, according to a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It was a relatively quiet stretch for health IT compared to recent weeks but interesting nonetheless.

EHR vendor Epic Systems is getting ready to launch an app store for third-party developers to build add-ons for Epic’s core products. The store, reportedly called App Exchange, is seen as Epic’s response to criticisms that the Verona, Wis.-based company has been a hindrance to interoperability of patient data for healthcare organizations using systems from different vendors, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

The "newest frontier" in the dark "cyber underworld" is health data, according to a report from NPR's "Morning Edition," and it's a lucrative business for criminals, as the recent Anthem data hack illustrated all too well to the healthcare industry.

St. Clair Hospital of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., has been named a 2014 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.

Seeking to improve cybersecurity-related data-sharing in both the government and the private sector, President Obama has signed an executive order creating the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center.

Health information exchange organizations in Texas are well on their way to sustainability and generally closer to interoperability than their counterparts in other states, but still lag when it comes to patient engagement.

Health IT vendor Cerner and development partner Mortara Instrument, a leading U.S. manufacturer of diagnostic cardiology instrumentation, including multi-parameter patient monitoring, have joined together to introduce CareAware Waveform Management, which displays waveforms and other physiological data from patient monitoring systems and integrates them into the EHR.