The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 22 proposed a rule that would significantly reduce federal health IT certification ...

More than 20 million people were affected by the 10 largest healthcare data breaches reported to the federal government in 2025, TechTarget reported ...

Get In-Demand Skills With an Online Certificate in the Foundations of Health Informatics. Health Informatics is the science of the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and application of data to ...

Health Informatics is a rapidly emerging discipline that connects people, technology, and data to better improve healthcare outcomes. Health Informatics professionals work with the processes and tools ...

Discover how the HIPAA Waiver of Authorization permits legal sharing of health data for research while upholding privacy protections. Learn the criteria required for approval.

The healthcare industry has emerged to be very data-intensive. How much, you ask? Well, it would require 2.3 zettabytes of data (or 2.3 trillion DVDs) to capture fully the data that the industry ...

At the intersection of healthcare and information technology is health informatics — the science that guides the collection, analysis and use of data. Why is health informatics important? It helps to ...

The healthcare field is rapidly evolving, and the demands for improved patient outcomes, increased efficiency, and advanced data leveraging require new thinking. Nursing informatics is a dynamic and ...

The nursing profession is changing – in large part fueled by information technology that can help nurses meet a growing list of challenges, said Summer Blackerby, RN, chief nursing information officer ...

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Irvine, California-based UCI Health this week announced the promotion of Julie Eastman, RN, who will serve as the health system's new chief information officer. Eastman, who started the job on July 24 ...