The numbers are enough to make a doctor scrawling a prescription fumble his or her pen. In 2014, a single e-prescribing vendor connected 900,000 healthcare workers and processed 6.5 billion transactions. If the setting were a multi-industry competition, the latter tally would have defeated American Express (6 billion) and trounced PayPal (4.2 billion).

Telehealth has been shown to improve quality of care, not least in rural areas where access to clinicians is limited. But does it really reduce costs?

The American Medical Association has thrown its weight behind legislation proposed a few weeks ago that would stop ICD-10 from ever seeing the light of day.

The public comments are now part of the public record, and—excuse the pun—they’re all over the (road)map.

One of the most basic steps in caring for patients continues to vex many healthcare providers, and that’s the case not just in the U.S. but also around the world. The step is matching patients with their records. The problem is the subject of an article in a special edition, international in scope, of Perspectives in Health Information Management.

The newest version of the 21st Century Cures Act gives EHR vendors until Jan. 1, 2018, to meet two interoperability provisions or face stiff penalties.

Three Missouri healthcare providers have formed a multi-state provider network. 

Three-quarters of patients readmitted to a hospital after being discharged return to the same hospital, according to a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.