Patient Access

Health and Human Services said in a new report to Congress that current regulations are not keeping pace with consumer engagement tools, including fitness trackers, social media, mobile health apps and wearables.

The Consumer Health Data Aggregator and Provider User Experience challenges focus on easing access to information for patients and clinicians, using open APIs and the FHIR interoperability standard.  

Health systems in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Texas are establishing small facilities with robust outpatient services to target specific regions.

The names and Twitter handles of this year's social media favorites as voted on by the people. 

This is the sixth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare.

The penultimate official rankings are in and they bring many of the brightest luminaries of the health IT social media realm on Twitter. 

Mobile technology makers and healthcare organizations are facing new privacy and security challenges due to the proliferation of mobile health apps and devices that must be overcome for those devices to achieve their promise.

A new study from HealthITJobs.com investigated how stress affects healthcare information technology workers and determined that more than half are frequently stressed because of deadlines, meetings, unrealistic workloads and too little time to exercise.

Advanced Plan for Health’s analytics technology will receive consumer health data from iHealth Labs mobile devices with the aim of enabling employers to reduce employee health costs and improve health outcomes.

The highest ranking winners of the annual #HIT100 list on Twittter are in, and this year’s list brings new faces as well as some that many health IT professionals will recognize as familiar.