Health eCareers, the healthcare industry's online career hub, is connecting short-staffed healthcare organizations with job seekers looking for the flexibility of short-term assignments through SHIFT, a new mobile and online tool dedicated exclusively to temporary and shift work in the healthcare industry.

Despite recent high-profile attempts to derail it, ICD-10 is likely to leave the station on Oct. 1, right on schedule. You’re better off learning it now than running to catch up with it later.

When everyday people talk, does ONC listen? In the case of the office’s Health IT Standards Committee (HITSC), two officials say the answer is yes—and here’s how. 

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has not yet declared himself a presidential candidate, but the likely contender has tipped his hat to a piece of technology that, by all appearances, inspires his drive to undo the Affordable Care Act.

A seventh state has enacted the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, finalizing the launch of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission. The new organization will work to advance not only physicians’ cross-state practice of medicine but also their new or expanded use of telehealth technologies.  

The numbers are enough to make a doctor scrawling a prescription fumble his or her pen. In 2014, a single e-prescribing vendor connected 900,000 healthcare workers and processed 6.5 billion transactions. If the setting were a multi-industry competition, the latter tally would have defeated American Express (6 billion) and trounced PayPal (4.2 billion).

Telehealth has been shown to improve quality of care, not least in rural areas where access to clinicians is limited. But does it really reduce costs?

The American Medical Association has thrown its weight behind legislation proposed a few weeks ago that would stop ICD-10 from ever seeing the light of day.