The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s major announcement of a one-year extension for Stage 2 got industry stakeholders talking. While there is added flexibility down the road, there remains no immediate relief as Stage 2 rolls out—leaving many in the field to question, is it enough?

URAC and The Leapfrog Group unveiled winners of their second annual 2013 Hospital Website Transparency Awards Program, which identifies hospital websites that promote transparency of safety and quality measures in a useful, user-friendly manner for consumers.

The Health IT Policy Committee unanimously endorsed recommendations presented by the privacy and security tiger team governing the accounting of disclosures of an individual’s protected health information.

Existing standards should suffice for incorporating patient-generated health data, according to an update from the Consumer Empowerment Workgroup, presenting at the Dec. 4 Health IT Policy Committee meeting.

Hospitals that adopted five medication management components of Meaningful Use Stage 1 had a lower likelihood of adverse drug events, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

New legislation introduced in the House seeks to more widely integrate wireless technologies in federal health agencies to decrease healthcare costs and improve quality of care.

Inovalon, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, today announced that Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. has entered into a multi-year engagement that enables Inovalon's advanced healthcare data analytics for payers and providers to leverage Greenway's PrimeSUITE electronic health record (EHR) platform, further enabling improvements in clinical and quality outcomes, and financial performance.

President Barack Obama signed into law legislation geared toward improving the overall safety of compounded drug products.