More than 50% of consumers are skeptical about the benefits of healthcare information technologies, including patient portals, mobile apps and electronic health records. And fully 70% of Americans ...

Seventeen healthcare organizations using Epic’s software are now connected to a federally backed health information network. The organizations began participating in the Trusted Exchange Framework and ...

Health systems are important in driving electronic health record adoption in ambulatory clinics, although the uptake of key functionalities varies across systems. Objectives: The adoption and use of ...

Health informatics saves lives by combining information technology and computer science with clinical expertise and management for better patient care. It's a broad field, and the far-ranging effects ...

Studies of health information technology have not kept up with the evolving needs of the healthcare system. We explain how to set them straight. Despite rapid growth in the rate of adoption of health ...

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin ( [email protected]) is a senior economic adviser in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in ...

After more than a decade of investment in electronic health information exchange (HIE), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is advancing a national framework—the ...

Health systems back startup Hippocratic AI in a $126 million Series C round to expand AI care tools and enhance patient support.

Health technologies can support the implementation o effective national health and care systems. These are defined as data-enabled infrastructure that supports policy and planning. In addition, they ...

Instead of calling this the information blocking rule, they should have called it the information sharing rule. The industry ...

On June 17, 2024, the final rule for Medicare Part D introduced new health IT standards, mandating the adoption of NCPDP SCRIPT Standard version 2023011 by January 1, 2028, while the NCPDP Formulary ...

Saint Louis University's accelerated Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences with a concentration in health information management to Master of Science in Health Data Science is designed for students ...