The next head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will be Donald Rucker, MD, a choice the industry was quick to praise once word of the pick leaked on March 31 due to an updated listing in the HHS employee directory.

Physicians are evenly splitting their time between office visits with patients and “desktop medicine” activities like typing notes, ordering tests and making referrals through a patient’s electronic health record, according to a study published in the April 2017 issue of Health Affairs. 

One of the pharmaceutical companies often blamed for hiding the addictive nature of its painkillers is now sponsoring a trial of an app aimed at curbing opioid abuse.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will make a final decision on whether to ditch its in-house electronic health record (EHR) system for a commercial product by June, according to VA Secretary Peter Shulkin.

A former Louisiana congressman and physician has been appointed to a new healthcare technology position within HHS, which is causing confusion as to what the future holds for the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

New York–Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging it charged more than double the legal rate to patients seeking physical copies of their medical records.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is leaning toward abandoning its troubled legacy electronic health record (EHR) system in favor of an off-the-shelf commercial option, even though the department has spent millions trying to modernize the system and advance interoperability.