Healthcare IT News

Kaiser Permanente this week has opened a new Center for Total Health near Capitol Hill.

Approximately $240 million in newly launched federal grants have been made available for job training programs, including those in health IT.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule Monday on telemedicine credentialing and privileging that aims to not only make the process less cumbersome for small hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) in rural areas, but also to provide more timely care.

New Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) research indicates that medical groups face significant challenges as they seek to transition to the new HIPAA Version 5010 electronic standards.

Americans who have health issues are now using the Internet to expand their support networks to include online peers, especially if they have a rare disease, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation.

In order to make sure Medicaid providers qualify to receive meaningful use incentives, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has proposed a two-year project aimed at understanding the barriers they face.

Getting rural providers, including critical access hospitals, to adopt electronic medical records is a monumental challenge, as the healthcare industry and advocates of healthcare IT are experiencing.

1,100 IT companies surveyed.

Patients are finding it hard to do online research on their primary care doctors, according to a new survey.

Neurological Services of Orlando is poised to roll out a Web-based neurology-specific electronic health record and practice management system developed by Waiting Room Solutions of Goshen, N.Y.