The patient’s story is the core of medicine and essential for accurate diagnoses and therapeutic relationships, but it's falling by the wayside, according to Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that all patient data kept by healthcare providers generated in the process of a patient's treatment and pertains to the patient's medical history, diagnosis, prognosis or medical condition is a medical record.

The American Hospital Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to eliminate the "all-or-nothing approach" to Meaningful Use.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will hold its sixth annual meeting May 31 – June 2 in Washington, D.C.

Indiana HIMSS, in collaboration with Eskenazi Health and Epic, will host a connectathon aimed at building the next generation of integrated and interoperable health solutions.

To help healthcare organizations maintain their mission-critical capabilities when the unexpected occurs, McKesson has launched a tiered offering of cost-efficient disaster recovery services that can be scaled to fit the needs and budgets of smaller to average-sized hospitals.

HIMSS Analytics has awarded Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami with a Stage 7 Award, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and 32 other organizations are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to shorten the Meaningful Use reporting period for 2016 from 365 to 90 days.