Mike Miliard

The I-STOP legislation, first passed in 2012, aims to combat controlled substance abuse. A provision set to take effect at the end of this month requires doctors to prescribe almost everything electronically.

Projects come from from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and NIH National Cancer Institute; the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other agencies.

Step-by-step tools help providers unlock data to help prevent cardiovascular events.

Experts say healthcare providers need to turn up the pressure on tech vendors to create more intuitive products.

Three years after first announcing it had chosen Epic for its new electronic health record system, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center went live on schedule on March 4, according to the Houston Business Journal.

Especially since participants in a recent survey indicated that they wasted time and money on measures that are not clinically relevant, some are starting to ask whether its worth it?

Medical practices spend an average of 785 hours per physician and $15.

Barely a year after announcing its ambitious plan to tie reimbursement to quality of care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that 30 percent of Medicare payments are now tied to alternative payment models, such as ACOs.  

As electronic health records have proliferated in recent years, so has the use of medical scribes. That's an unwelcome development for two big reasons, said two CMIOs at HIMSS16.

Value-based program will score physicians on quality, resource use, practice improvement and certified technology.