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There is an apparent lack of awareness of federal regulations in both the U.S. and Canada to keep patient information secure.

Health IT vendors are building greater flexibility into clinical decision support systems so they can optimally function in a dynamic healthcare environment, Frost & Sullivan finds in a new report.

An identity and access management expert illustrates this critical area of information security and offers tips on how to best control who is accessing protected health information.

Underlying weaknesses in common OS’s are slowing hospitals down. Software can help fix them.

Atrium Health’s flagship hospital sees the cloud-based clinical communications platform enabling reduced length of stay, reduced readmission rates and faster delivery of critical care to patients.

The communications system, integrated with the provider’s Epic EHR, is used throughout most of the medical center, and it has helped the organization boost HCAHPS scores in almost every measure.

With the new solution, the NHS trust aims to better protect girls and women at risk of FGM.

The next generation of doctors is going to be able to more easily separate the advantages and disadvantages of cloud technology and be able to embrace these technologies because they help them do their jobs better, an expert says.

The Electronic Health Record Association gives its OK to CMS’ version 2017071 standard for electronic prior authorization applied to prescription drugs for the Medicare Part D program.

A new Center for Connected Medicine/HIMSS Media survey of healthcare tech leaders shows that most hospitals and health systems are depending on a single, integrated EHR to solve their interoperability woes.