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The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the comment period for its proposed rule on health insurance exchanges.

Healthcare is swimming in data. Objectively, that's a good thing, of course. But a sea of information is useless – and can sometimes be harmful – without a way to navigate it, to get the right data at the right time.

A unique summer program, which paired physicians at Mount Nittany Medical Center with pre-med students at Penn State, has proved to be successful in coaching doctors on EMR use and giving students a real-life experience in a hospital setting.

Susan Herron has a new tool at her disposal for checking medication administration at the patient’s bedside. Among its attributes, she says, “It bounces pretty good.”

It’s not about the technology. One would think, given the struggles of telemedicine programs to gain a foothold in the healthcare landscape, that advocates would point first to the tools and gadgets that help connect doctors and their patients in different locations.

Did you hear the one about the lawyer who calls on an HIE? Most likely not – because it’s no joke.

Health eVillages will provide decision support tools and technology via mobile devices to remote areas of the globe where quality healthcare is in short supply.

The widespread sharing of health information is going to be a long, tough journey during which technology must advance, and politics need to be aligned properly.

As health organizations begin to feel their way toward accountable care models, a new report from KLAS explores how providers and vendors are putting the pieces together, finding varying levels of confidence in IT solutions' integration ability.

With the ICD-10 transition deadline now just two years away, providers and payers have finally begun tackling the project in earnest, according to a new survey from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), which shows 85 percent of organizations either planning for or implementing the new codes.