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When stakeholders, federal officials and proponents of electronic health records first tossed around the idea of providing incentives to help move the giant boulder of progress up the mountain, there were plenty of skeptics. How can you take physicians who are set in their ways – and patients who are used to those ways – and change all the rules? But, change they did, and in just two years since the EHR Incentive Program began, more hospitals and physicians than ever before have gone digital.

The Bipartisan Policy Center, Heritage Provider Network and The Advisory Board Company announced Tuesday the launch the Care Transformation Prize Series, a nationwide contest to find ways to more effectively deploy big data in healthcare.

A raft of technologies including broadband, cloud computing, cheaper storage and mobile devices, among others, is driving the transformation. At the same time, market expectations regarding standards of care are changing, as are younger providers' relationship with health-specific IT.

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center (Brookhaven, N.Y.) recently installed two CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems to help enhance patient care. One DRX-Revolution images ER patients and the other system is used for ICU and inpatients throughout the hospital.

iMedicor VMCI 0.00% today announced the launch of "Easier Than Pulling Teeth" (ETPT), a program designed to assist providers within the Careington dental community - among the nation's largest - with adherence to Meaningful Use guidelines and receipt of up to $63,750 in Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive funding over six years.

Now that states have declared their plans for health insurance exchanges, the focus can move from which model to choose -- and its political implications -- to the details of their progress as they prepare for enrollment in October 2013, just 10 months off.

If an army marches on its stomach, does that mean a healthcare provider marches on its data?

The continuing convergence of healthcare and information communication technologies makes the telehealth industry one of the most confusing yet transformative spaces across the globe. One of the key needs in telehealth concerns the management and adherence to medication regimens. While basic pill boxes are not new, recent advancements in technology have allowed more effective medication management systems emerge creating this new exciting market opportunity. Due to these needs, medication management systems are quickly growing; consequently, this is becoming one of the most rapidly evolving markets in healthcare.

As Hurricane Sandy's violent winds and torrential flooding hammered the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states Monday night, many hospitals were left to deal with the crippling aftermath.