Seven U.S. health systems in the Northeast region announced an alliance—AllSpire Health Partners—to address quality, population health management, best practices and medical research matters.

As of June 2013, 68 percent of eligible hospitals purchased vendor software that has achieved 2014 edition certification criteria, but concerns remain that some of these hospitals have yet to upgrade to the most recently certified version, according to a HIMSS Analytics Database survey administered to 418 hospitals between January and June 2013.

As part of National Health IT Week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT named GenieMD as the winner of its Blue Button Co-Design Challenge.

A neonatal telemedicine program unveiled at the Children’s Medical Center Dallas will provide physicians at other hospital neonatal intensive care units with 24-hour access to board-certified UT Southwestern neonatologists on the Children’s medical staff.

This week is the eighth annual National Health IT Week, which offers an opportunity for the federal government and industry associations to shine the spotlight on their initiatives, goals and successes.

Patient-centered medical homes reported higher operating costs per patient but also higher total medical revenue per patient than other practices, according to a report from the Medical Group Management Association.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (September 17, 2013) – Focused on the value of mobile health for improving patient care and outcomes, mHIMSS, the mobile health initiative of HIMSS, will announce its new mValue Case Study Submission program at the mHIMSS Reception held on Sept. 17 during National Health IT Week in Washington, D.C.

September 9, 2013 - IHE Europe is delighted to announce that Vienna, Austria is to host the fourteenth annual Connectathon from 7th to 11th April 2014. Vienna is particularly well suited to the logistics of dealing with some 350 IT engineers and in excess of 70 companies from across Europe who will endure the five days of interoperability testing.