Open source software has been certified as a 2014 edition EHR module, according to a post on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s blog.

Healthcare reform encourages hospitals and independent physicians to collaborate on care, but contracts that end up creating a financial motive to drive up Medicare and Medicaid costs can put a hospital on the wrong side of the law, as the non-profit acute-care Memorial Hospital in Fremont, Ohio, found out.

Cadence Health and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare have signed a letter of intent to merge — a deal that could create one of the largest nonprofit academic healthcare delivery systems in the midwest.

EHRs can be used effectively to predict the onset of sepsis, according to researchers from the University of California at Davis.

Hospital operators feeling the pinch from reduced inpatient volumes due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ new regulations to better define when a short-term stay should count as an inpatient stay are certainly not alone. According to financial analysts at the prestigious Moody's Investors Service,  the new inpatient billing rule referred to as the “two-midnight rule” will put financial pressure on hospitals for some time to come.

PatientsLikeMe, an online network of patients with chronic disease, recently launched its “data for good” campaign that promotes health information sharing to advance research.

Employment in health care changed little in February, reports the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This marks the third consecutive month of almost no change in employment in the industry.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance officially presented new patient-centered medical home standards during a March 10 briefing.