Molly Merrill

Specialty physicians can better coordinate the care of patients with chronic diseases using electronic health records and providing e-consulations, according to results of new study.

A battle is brewing between the American Medical Association and Sermo, Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based online physician community.

As with anything on the Web, Twitter has its security issues – and hospitals have to be on the alert.

Cook Children’s Health Care System, a not-for-profit, pediatric healthcare organization based in Fort Worth, Texas, is partnering with athenahealth and Microsoft to launch a new national clinical platform that aims at improving care for pediatric patients.

Hospitals have seen a decrease in EMR adoption in states where privacy laws restrict their ability to disclose patient information, according to a study published in the journal Management Science.

Mississippi officials are hopeful that the state’s trauma care registry is “back, alive and growing” following passage of a bill aimed at improving participation in and funding for the registry.

The goal for Hello Health is to create an online network and tools that empower doctors all across America to have the freedom to simply practice high quality medicine.

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will offer a new degree program in informatics this September.

President Barack Obama called for fixing the broken healthcare system by building upon investments made in electronic medical records in a town hall meeting held last month.

The “deinstallation” of electronic medical records, or reverting back to paper, is difficult to measure, but one report suggests that Arizona is experiencing an increase in EMR failures that could be followed nationally.