Five more EHR vendors have had their products certified for meeting some or all requirements of revised Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program.

Acting Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, has designated Thanksgiving as “Family Health History Day” and shares a new tool designed to help people assemble their family health history.

New guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services addresses Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements related to summary of care, clinical summary and patient electronic access to their records.

A lost USB flash drive is the source of Kaiser Permanente's second data breach this fall.

More than $300 million in funding for an integrated EHR system at the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs was spent on support service contracts in 2012, according to a report from the Interagency Program Office (IPO).

U.S. seniors want more access to online health information, according to a survey by Accenture.

Breaches of personal health information are happening every week but it's not often that the main victims are clinicians rather than patients.

Children’s Medical Center in Dallas has won a 2013 Enterprise HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence for use of health IT, particularly EHRs.