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Heather Haugen, vice president of research at the Breakaway Group, a Xerox subsidiary, discusses some opportunities created by the ICD-10 delay in terms of clinical documentation and alignment with EHRs, controlling coders' learning curves and addressing anticipated productivity loss following the compliance deadline.

Heather Haugen, the Breakaway Group's vice president of research, explains how the healthcare industry has to change for ICD-10.

William Yasnoff, president of the Health Record Banking Alliance explains how the extensible service, MyDataCan, could be critical to facilitating our nation's health information infrastructure. But only if it the service is valuable enough to attract a large number of users.

Caregivers who talk with the patient about their care before, during and after care tend to improve outcomes and avoid readmissions. Technology can help improve how it's done -- and documented.

Wendy Whittington, MD, chief medical officer at Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, supports the adoption of health IT. But she warns that certain oversights during the implementation process could have adverse affects on patients.

The battle plan, fought on two fronts, yielded an early if tactical victory in the one-year compliance delay that HHS proposed last week. But is the AMA's war to oppose ICD-10 over?

HL7 – not just for IT anymore. That thinking is the catalyst behind a triptych of recent moves designed to open the standards process to more health professionals, notably caregivers.

Citing the high and growing demand for well prepared healthcare IT professionals, universities are offering new programs to help educate and train the workers to fill the jobs. Among them are schools in Rochester, N.Y. and in Fort Wayne, Ind.

More than 98 percent of Massachusetts residents have health insurance, more than anywhere else in U.S., thanks to former Governor Mitt Romney's health reform law.

Everyone in healthcare uses smartphones nowadays, but no one's quite sure what to do about them.