Molly Merrill
A consortium leading a $30 million telehealth project in California has tapped AT&T to connect hundreds of healthcare providers throughout the state.
The U.S. Department of Labor is accepting applications for $13.2 million in grant funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create and implement an online platform that will boost access to healthcare career opportunities, including occupations such as medical records and health information technicians.
Policies promoting electronic medical record adoption should include communication-skills training for clinicians and those using the technology, according to a new study.
Patient engagement should be a critical piece of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, public comment on a draft framework indicates.
Although a new study finds "uneven" effort being applied to implementing clinical decision support in CPOE, some hospitals are setting the bar for its use, and this is good news that should not be overlooked, says one of the authors of the study.
Despite high rates of health IT use, few Hawaii physicians are aware of the cost of medications they prescribe, and this impedes their ability to consider drug affordability for their patients, according to a new study.
A radiologist contracted by Griffin Hospital, a 160-bed acute care community hospital in St. Derby, Conn, has breached images of 957 patients. The radiologist accessed the reports on the hospital's PACS system, downloaded image files of 339 of these patients, and even contacted some of the patients offering to provide professional services at another area hospital.
Twitter has the potential to spread misinformation about health and medicine, according to a new study that examined Twitter updates about antibiotics.
Verizon Business launched a new platform last month that will allow more than 350,000 physicians to digitally share patient notes by the end of the summer.
Given that texting is the most widely used mobile data service and healthcare workers are among the biggest users of mobile technology, it may seem natural for its use to be extended into the physician-patient relationship.