The National Quality Forum has issued a report providing guidance on how to measure the safety and safe use of health IT, including IT design, use and implementation.

Freestanding emergency departments roughly doubled in number in the U.S., to around 400, between 2009 and 2014. 

Almost half (45 percent) of providers participate in some type of alternative payment model, according to the findings of the HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey.

In an effort to bridge the "information-sharing gap in Medicaid," the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), announced an initiative that permits states to request the 90 percent enhanced matching funds from CMS to connect a broader variety of Medicaid providers to a health information exchange.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare today announced two large systems integrators (SIs) and seven leading-edge independent software vendors (ISVs) are planning to move their innovative digital solutions to the new GE Health Cloud. Designed exclusively for the healthcare industry and resting on the shoulders of GE’s industrial-strength Predix™ platform, the GE Health Cloud will ultimately connect more than 2 million imaging machines worldwide, including 500,000 GE Healthcare devices.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the release of UpToDate® MobileComplete™ for mobile enterprise users. With this new capability, users can download comprehensive clinical content from UpToDate to their mobile device for offline access. 

First-year resident physicians spend plenty of time actively using the EHR—enough time, in fact, to become proficient “power users” by January of the academic year, according to a study in the February edition of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

Healthcare's evolution from volume to value is changing the view of health IT and health IT executives, according to results from the 2016 HIMSS Leadership Survey.