The push to give patients more control over their own medical information has taken many twists and turns over the years from patient portals to personal health records. At the HIMSS conference in Las ...

Healthcare data is an important resource patients can use to improve health outcomes for themselves and as part of research groups. This fact is driving the need for easier ways patients and providers ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is flipping the switch on a service that lets Medicare beneficiaries more easily download and share their health data. CMS Records Management The Centers ...

HIMSS has published its comments – sent separately to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT – on their respective proposed rules on ...

The CMS is once again tackling prior authorization in its new rule proposed Tuesday. Prior authorization, a process in which a physician must get the green light from an insurer for medication or ...

HHS published its final health IT interoperability rules in the Federal Register, both taking effect June 30. The two rules, issued by CMS and ONC, support the MyHeathEData Initiative and 21st Century ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The healthcare industry has often been plagued with interoperability challenges. This has ...