Researchers identified five main problem categories and key factors contributing to these problems in a review of literature about patient portals.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has a new chief nursing officer in Rebecca Freeman, RN. 

Partners HealthCare and Health Catalyst have agreed to share best practices, intellectual property, technology and training in an unprecedented $30 million partnership focused on population health management.

The federal Interoperability Task Force presented its report to the Health IT Policy Committee during its Sept. 9 meeting, covering clinical, technical, organizational and financial barriers.

A Democratic senator is calling for the expansion of phone subsidies for low-income Americans to include broadband internet service to help veterans.

A new provider led, not-for-profit, multistakeholder organization aims to foster a collaborative industry-wide initiative for an open services oriented architecture (SOA)-based platform, a next-generation technology model and multi-vendor restful web services modeled against HL7 FHIR and CIMI/CEM based profiles.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will fund ambulatory care and long-term care facilities to research strategies to improve patient safety through IT and other evidence-based tools.

The home health technology market--connected devices, services and applications used by a consumer outside of a clinical setting for medical, health or wellness purposes--will grow from $3.4 billion in 2014 to more than $13.7 billion by 2020, according to a report from Tractica.