Erin McCann

Three years after procuring a $16.1 million HHS grant to bolster local health IT initiatives and diabetic care management, the Western New York Beacon Community has chronicled mixed success -- at least in the quantifiable sense. Anecdotally, however, its success becomes much more striking, officials say.

Martin Blinder, CEO of Tictrac, presents an innovative, consumer-focused mobile app which tracks a user's daily activites and amalgamates diverse metrics to provide snapshots of the individual's health via a personalized dashboard.

Five hospitals across West Virginia have recently signed on with the state's health information network, bringing the total number of hospitals connected to nine.

Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt lead a panel discussion at Health Datapalooza IV to discuss whether or not the current surge in public and private sector spending on health IT programs is going to reduce healthcare costs.

In this clip from Health Datapalooza IV, panelists Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt discuss whether or not the private sector is beginning to match government investment in health IT.

A new mobile health trends report released Wednesday underscores the mid- to low sophistication of current mHealth application technology but also emphasizes the explosive growth and integration headed for the market.

2013 has been billed as the year of EHR dissatisfaction, with up to 23 percent of physician practices reporting they were trading in their current EHR system for a new brand altogether and, according to a new Black Book Rankings report, there were a handful of vendors that came out on top.

It's often said that our society is one steeped in impatience. We want fast Internet, quick news, overnight deliveries. This culture of instant gratification even pervades healthcare, as can be seen in the outcomes of CMS' Pioneer ACO model, which initially boasted 32 member organizations but recently saw nine jump ship -- with two groups washing their hands of the project altogether.

In a recent federal court decision that went quietly under the radar but further opened the door for healthcare cost transparency, a U.S. district judge ruled to vacate a 33-year-old injunction that prevented the release of Medicare claims data.

In the biggest HIPAA privacy breach of 2013 -- and among the largest to date -- Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth is notifying some 277,000 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several hospital microfilms, which were supposed to be destroyed, were found in various public locations.