Health professionals say finding agreement is the key to success for the economic stimulus act's $19 billion for automating health records. Health care information professionals say the success of the ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary of Financial Resources proposed this rule. The proposal aims to advance interoperability standards.

The Health Information Technology Standards Committee is working with the Nationwide Health Information Network Power Team in seeking comments from NwHIN users on their experiences with the health ...

Standards Committee Investigates Information Exchange Functions for EHRs The Health IT Standards Committee has started work on examining the different types of information exchange functions ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- LOINC ® and Health Data Standards at Regenstrief Institute has received a $4.4 million grant from the Regenstrief Foundation to support expansion of work on a global initiative to ...

Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology, has strongly denied any plans to develop a national network that would transmit patients' medical information to the ...

Amid privacy, security and technological concerns, healthcare IT professionals got a progress report on the status of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) which seeks to improve patient ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Marjorie Rallins, DPM, M.S., has been elected to the Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International Board of Directors during the 37th Annual Plenary, Working Group Meeting and HL7® FHIR® ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has been renamed and restructured, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this morning. The ...

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, this dynamic new film series shines a light on the vital work of health information (HI) professionals at the intersection of care, technology, and ...

The University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy in the College of Health Sciences has launched a new certificate program aimed at providing practicing pharmacists, other health professionals and health ...

Fax machines and servers may be old tech, but they're trusted. And, until someone comes up with a more secure and prolific method for transmitting patient information and prescription requests, the ...