For the third quarter of fiscal 2015, athenahealth’s revenue increased 24 percent to $236.1 million compared with the same quarter in 2014, while its non-GAAP adjusted operating income increased from $18.5 million to $25.4 million during the same time period.

Information governance is progressing, according to the results of the AHIMA-Cohasset Associates second survey on IG in Healthcare.  

Early analytics adopters are reaping the rewards but other providers are struggling with implementation, according to a study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and data analytics firm Qlik. 

Critical access hospitals aren’t faring well in the current healthcare environment with a rising rate of closures. 

Time is money, and patients seeking ambulatory care waste too much of both. In fact, they spend more on “opportunity costs”—an average of $43 per visit—than on out-of-pocket payments for the ambulatory visit itself.

With a big question mark hanging over its future, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched its 2015 Research Conference on Oct. 5.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT just held its fifth annual Consumer Health IT Summit and data, analytics and patients were at the center of several sessions. 

Barriers to health data access are everywhere, said Steven Keating, PhD candidate, who made headlines earlier this year when his research on his own brain tumor led to the realization the tumor had grown and he needed an operation.