A coalition of five electronic health-record developers created a buzz and a controversy last month when they announced they were forming the CommonWell Health Alliance to promote health information exchange. FULL STORY »
Now that many office-based physicians and a majority of hospitals have used electronic health-records systems for a year or longer, the federal government will work on nudging providers to get better at sharing the contents. FULL STORY »
Where's Epic? In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and healthcare information technology futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question. FULL STORY »
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has named Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal, director of healthcare practice, Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco, and eight others to the federally chartered Health IT Standards Committee, according to an... FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | March 02, 2013
| Print Magazine
“We called it the Sunny von Bülow bill. These companies that should have been dead were being put on machines and kept alive for another few years. The biggest players drew this incredible huddle around the rule-makers and the rules are ridiculously favorable to these companies and... FULL STORY »
Athenahealth, Watertown, Mass., has received federal antitrust clearance to acquire mobile application developer Epocrates for $293 million through cash and existing credit lines. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn and Melanie Evans | January 07, 2013
| Basic Web
Athenahealth, a health information technology company, announced its second acquisition agreement since September with a $293 million cash deal for Epocrates, a mobile application developer. FULL STORY »
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