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St. John's Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., will rebuild and come back stronger, its executives pledged in a news conference held earlier this week. Part of the rebuild is putting the EHR – installed less than a month ago – back online.

Group intends to "provide a robust view of the rapidly evolving HIT ecosystem," CEO Kate Berry says.

As it addresses an "explosive growth of medical information," IBM has expanded its Health Analytics Solution Center – with team members working to increase and improve remote EHR connectivity through new "Watson"-like analytics power.

Foursquare, a location-based mobile platform, is the place to be for medical practices looking to "gain an online social edge" says one social media expert. Without it, he says, you won't be found.

A new personal health record platform set to launch this summer aims to give parents anytime, anywhere access to a comprehensive view of their children's health records.

Data breaches have become the new healthcare "epidemic," says one expert.

Using social media as a physician isn't about filling your office with new patients, as one expert will tell you, but is more about the "moral obligation" that physicians have to provide their patients with accurate health information.

When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, survey respondents were divided on whether or not the law wisely balances control between states and federal government.

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced a $241 million settlement on Friday – the largest recovery in the history of California's False Claims Act – with Quest Diagnostics, the state's biggest provider of medical laboratory testing, to recover illegal overcharges to the state's medical program for the poor. 


Aileen Black, vice president of public sector at VMware, discusses what those rumblings about cloud computing in the government mean to the federal health IT sector.