A federal interoperability roadmap isn't enough to appropriately address the current barriers to information exchange, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association. 

The Veteran's Administration has awarded a $100 million contract to J P systems to standardize medical terminologies.   

Cerner has unveiled a production version of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard that is being tested in its EHR.

Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), a world-renowned academic research organization, has expanded its endpoint adjudication services – and significantly reduced the timeline to complete the process – by implementing eClinicalOS (eCOS), a multi-faceted, cloud-based clinical trials solution from the eClinical division of Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ:MRGE).

New legislation aims to improve health IT transparency and interoperability and follows up on the series of Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearings held this summer.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced a new workgroup charged with integrating the latest telehealth technology into the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set.

A new online portal is designed to help mobile health technology developers better understand HIPAA privacy and security issues. 

Dell, the world's third-largest maker of personal computers, has announced plans to buy data storage company EMC for $67 billion.