Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington, has ended an electronic health record (EHR) integration project that was “bleeding money,” according to The Star.

Chief information officers (CIOs) in healthcare said they’re more likely than IT professionals in other industries to increase their budgets in 2017, according to a new Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO survey.

Having more friends on social media can have benefits for patients—namely, being less likely to die in the next two years.

Friday, October 21, Cleveland: For more than 30 years, C. Martin Harris, M.D., has led the movement to apply information technology to healthcare delivery and create better, more efficient systems of care. Now comes a book that shares his vision and explains how information drives clinical and financial success while helping both doctors and patients to make better healthcare decisions.

Wearable devices that can track heart rates aren’t too far off in their results, but their accuracy goes down when people would need them the most.

Patients relying on symptom checker apps and websites aren’t getting as accurate of a diagnosis as they would by visiting a real physician, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Rural areas hit hard by the rise in opioid addiction often lack the needed treatment expertise, but health professionals may have a solution: video chat.

Dealing with hospital bills is a struggle for everyone involved, striking at least annoyance and possibly terror in the hearts of patients, administrators, physicians and payors alike. They can be confusing, and errors can unnecessarily boost costs. According to The Atlantic, between 10 percent and 30 percent of medical bills include some kind of error.