McKesson Corp. is considering a sale or a merger for its IT unit in an effort to contain costs and refocus on its drug distribution business, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Reporting requirements and the extra time spent learning and using new software may be limiting the payoff from using electronic health records, according to the New York Times.

As patients become more like shoppers, practices will have to give the customers what they want, and in imaging that means online access to radiology reports.

The leading cause of healthcare data breaches so far this year is unauthorized access or disclosure, not hacking, according to data compiled by HHS’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR).

Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of electronic health records (EHRs), announced its OpenVista EHR system will be used at Pontiac General Hospital.

While the healthcare industry increasingly adopts EHRs, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) called for a national patient ID system to improve safety and interoperability.

Nearly 84 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals had adopted a basic electronic health records (EHR) system with notes through 2015, an increase of 8 percentage points from the year before

A pilot program that promotes easy, quick sharing of medical notes aims to improve patient engagement and education at three hospitals with 105 primary care physicians and 13,564 patients.