If you’ve visited the doctor or a hospital recently, you can’t help but notice how much of your care depends on some form of electronic information exchange. From the prescription your doctor writes ...

However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, part of Barack Obama's health reform agenda was investing and expanding electronic health information technology. He promised to spend $10 billion per year over ...

The introduction of the Oracle Cerner electronic health records system at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois, has lawmakers questioning the future of the ...

It took decades for the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin updating its electronic health record system. Now, billions of dollars later, the VA has halted that update after multiple breakdowns ...

New ILR School-led research offers a comprehensive overview of the role of health information technology (IT) in the ...

A federal appeals court ruled that electronic health records company PointClickCare can't block health analytics firm Real Time Medical Systems from accessing patient data from its skilled nursing ...

The Department of Defense plans to decommission the online portal patients use to access old military health information and recommends patients download their digital medical records if they want to ...

WITH work underway in the healthcare sector to foster digital integration, public health laboratories are expected to soon be connected through an electronic ...