Out of the $6 billion CMS made in Medicare electronic health records (EHR) incentive payments by June 2014, the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) estimated $729 million was paid to professionals who didn’t meet meaningful use requirements.

Apple has brought on Sumbul Desai, MD, for an undefined senior role which CNBC said “demonstrates that Apple is taking its health ambitions seriously.”

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and the American Medical Association (AMA) have launched the Verify Health Care Portal, the clinician attestation component of VerifyHCP, a robust solution for monitoring physician information that simplifies a successful data strategy for managing a health plan network.

Confirming months of speculation, Cerner has been selected to replace the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ in-house electronic health record system.

Electronic health record (EHR) vendor eClinicalWorks will pay $155 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging it “falsely obtained” meaningful use certification and gave customers kickbacks in exchange for publicly promoting its products.

The rollout of the U.S. military’s new Cerner-based electronic health records (EHRs) system, MHS Genesis, may be months behind schedule, according to POLITICO.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, has announced the beginning of a beta test to roll out the Precision Medicine Initiative, an effort to amass health information from one million people for a nation research database

When it comes to tracking calories, wearables like Apple Watch and Fitbit often provide very inaccurate information, according to Stanford University researchers.