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The U.S. lags other countries in adoption of ICD-10, and it should end the delay for adoption, speakers at a Capitol Hill briefing Feb. 10 told members of Congress.

As the data needs of clinical analytics mount, some vendors are revving the engines with more horsepower.

HIPAA created many rules that protect the privacy of patients and ensure the security of healthcare data. But the law left a big loophole regarding third-party entities which legally have access to protected health information from organizations that are required to be HIPAA-compliant.

With a combination of vendor-developed and homegrown apps, Penn Medicine has a varied mobile device landscape -- that poses challenges for security, but offers opportunities for smoother clinical workflow and improved outcomes.

Smart advice about rising to the top in a male-dominated IT world.

For physicians in small practices, it turns out the cost of moving from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is much less than anticipated, according to a new study released today by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management.

Big data tools and techniques are enabling providers to glean information from more and more sources. The challenge is analyzing it all and understanding how to put it to work improving processes and care.

For the sake of connected care, it's time to stop thinking about interoperability as "an EHR feature" and start understanding it at the informatics level.

Some 45,000 people are getting HIPAA breach notification letters after a mental health provider failed to encrypt laptops containing medical data and Social Security numbers.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, which has already achieved Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics scale, will pick up its 2014 enterprise Davies Award at HIMSS15 this April. How did they do it? We ask their leaders.