Molly Merrill

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has rolled out a healthcare management platform for its 880,000 members in greater Kansas City, northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas.

Minnesota is set to become the first state to require all healthcare providers to electronically submit insurance claims to health plans using a single set of data standards.

The city of New York is positioned to become the nation's capital of healthcare information technology, according a new report released by the Center for an Urban Future.

First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $851 million in grants to community health centers on Monday.

Lack of financing has caused mental health and human services to lag far behind general healthcare in access to health information technology, according to a national survey of more than 400 organizations.

Legislation was introduced during a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Regulations and Healthcare earlier this week to help small medical practices in adopting healthcare IT.

Fifty-six organizations have shown support for the Markle Connecting for Health Collaborative's Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information - a set of practices to improve consumer access to personal health information and protect privacy.

Two laptops containing the health information of more than 300,000 people were reported stolen from Alberta Health Services, leading the information and privacy commissioner of the Canadian province to question the organization's level of security.

Medical device companies have been slow to adopt Total Product Lifecycle (TPLC) management practices, according to a new study.

The state of Arizona and the Phoenix area have experienced a high adoption rate for electronic medical records, but this has been followed by a "deinstallation" of the technology, according a report by HealthLeaders-InterStudy.