Diana Manos

While the number of overall data breaches is down, incidents involving 100 million or more records continue to be a concern, a new report found.

New service comes shortly after the software giant aligned with Amazon, IBM, Google, Oracle and Salesforce to remove interoperability barriers.

With large integrated delivery networks scooping up physician practices and pressuring vendors to integrate different pieces of infrastructure, expect changes coming before too long.

HHS said it is looking to remove regulatory barriers to health information sharing and the plan just took a first step.

Experts contend that healthcare providers are starting to catch on to the importance social determinants of health play at the individual and patient population levels and that, increasingly, the factors will inform how they can ultimately improve care.   

LHQF and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Louisiana created an HIE registry to keep patients out of the emergency room. 

Now that the healthcare industry is mostly digitized, leading hospitals like THR are looking at how to use technology as an enabler for improving health, CHIO Ferdinand Velasco said. 

Kansas Health Information Network forwards all information, including notes and reports, to patients via a portal. 

Success requires finesse on several fronts: engaging clinicians, care givers, IT vendors and patients themselves, all at the same time. 

The gender gap has grown wider, even among executives, during the last decade. But why?