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Mobile apps equipped with clinical decision support lead to much higher diagnosis rates than apps that merely record data from a patient exam, a study from Columbia University School of Nursing shows.

UPMC's chief innovation officer talks true semantic interoperability, moving past the hype and reaching thousands of patients at a time.

Stiffer competition between key vendors is leaving an increasing number of healthcare providers on the fence about which EHR system to buy, according to a new report form research firm KLAS.

The self-professed "disruptive innovation geek" lauds the HIT community, laments the state of patient-centered care and reflects on time spent in telecom.

Healthcare organizations willing to break the tried-and-true approach to acquiring IT products are creating applications that are more closely aligned with their needs. And potentially getting equity in a successful startup.

Enough talk about information technology's use in the practice of medicine. Health IT must become the practice of medicine.

With a $45.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College will collaborate on research aimed at improving tuberculosis treatments and stopping the deadly infection from spreading.

St. Clair Hospital of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a 328-bed acute care facility, has been named a 2014 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.

Physicians are at the top of Glassdoor's list of the 25 most lucrative jobs, with an average base salary of $212,270. Notably absent from the list? Positions for healthcare CIOs.

Gauging the future impact of emerging healthcare technologies can be tricky. A recent case study from ECRI Institute seeks to assess the accuracy of its crystal ball gazing.