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Natural language processing technology is helping the health system unlock information from the notes that it previously hadn't been able to use.

From opioid abuse to diabetes prevention, big data is making an impact.

The specialty practice only had to expand support staff by 20 percent to keep pace.

Analysts predict a final price will be more than the original $6.5 billion takeover bid while athenahealth's executive chairman Jeff Immelt says sale, merger or remaining independent are all options.

The agency is seeking ideas from healthcare stakeholders about how such a group might be structured, and how it could help accelerate innovation and encourage capital investment across the industry.

The month-long window is the shortest turnaround from a state and doesn’t exempt the healthcare sector, effectively giving Colorado providers just half the time required by HIPAA to report.

Interest in potentially disruptive technologies abound in the active M&A realm but so do security concerns and dissatisfaction.

With CEO Jonathan Bush now out, should athenahealth accept activist investor Elliott Management's $6.5 billion takeover bid?

Ajit Pai seeks immediate action to ramp up the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Health Care Program, which advances telehealth, for the first time since it started in 1997.

The new technology enables hospitals to manage disparate data from various electronic health records.