The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a 53-page guide tailored specifically to implementing telehealth in critical access hospitals and rural areas.

Two developments this week have the potential for big impact in coming months and years, particularly when it comes to interoperability.

Jackson Preparatory School with begin offering telehealth urgent care to its employees on January 1, 2015 as part of a pilot program with University of Mississippi Medical Center's Center for Telehealth.

McKesson will implement NIMIS within an additional seven hospitals, helping to transform radiology services across Ireland

The Argonaut Project has released its newly creater charter which seeks to accelerate nationwide health information sharing based on an internet-based open architecture and accelerate and focus HL7's development of FHIR interoperability standards and profiles.

The recent hack of Sony Corp. is bringing to light how much electronic health data proliferates outside of the medical setting, according to Bloomberg.  

Many healthcare partnerships and mergers announced in 2014 will soon take shape in the New Year, reports Albany Business Review.

RESTON, Va. — December 16, 2014 —   The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) in partnership with the Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), assembled more than 40 representatives from major health plans, providers, health IT vendors, healthcare organizations and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in an effort to develop an effective and consistent industry blueprint for a virtual clipboard mobile application.