In its response a Senate committee's call for comments on the availability and utility of healthcare data, the EHR Association has called for a nationwide patient data matching strategy to ensure the accurate, timely and efficient matching of patients with their healthcare data across different systems and settings of care.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT continues its focus on interoperability, recently announcing its effort to draft a “living document” to accompany its 10-year interoperability vision.

OMAHA, Neb.--Avantas, a leading provider of strategic labor management technology, services and strategies for the healthcare industry, today announced that the Penn State Hershey Medical Group has saved more than $800,000 in one year since implementing Avantas’ consulting services and healthcare enterprise labor management solutions.

The Pew Charitable Trusts, a research and public policy organization, is calling on Congress to assess the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s interoperability efforts as they prove essential to review medical devices.

A tool launched by the Physician Foundation and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill reveal shortages of selected specialists and combinations of specialties in some areas of the nation.

A mobile app acquired by the Los Angeles County Fire Department sends alerts to smartphone users so cardiac arrest victims can receive lifesaving CPR from trainer bystanders, reports The Los Angeles Times.

DALLAS, August 7, 2014--According to the new market research report "Medication Management Market by Systems (CPOE, CDSS, Automated Dispensing, Assurance Systems), Services (Medication Analytics, POC Verification, ADE Surveillance), Mode of Delivery (On-Premises, Web-Based, Cloud-Based) - Global Forecast to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, analyzes and studies major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Rest of the World (RoW).

Telemedicine has the potential to deliver more than $6 billion in healthcare savings per year to U.S. companies, according to global analytics company Towers Watson.