If big data is so useful in medicine, why isn’t it more widespread? The “stubborn culture of medicine” and slow technological adoption are some of the culprits, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Apple’s health app, a free feature of iOS 8, allows data collected from multiple gadgets to appear in one place.

National Institutes of Health has unveiled a seven-year, $656 million initiative, Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K), to make huge biomedical data sets available to researchers worldwide, reports Los Angeles Times.

A computer error is why Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital staff accidentally discharged a patient diagnosed with Ebola, reports CBS News.

Facebook may venture into the healthcare field.

With reimbursement penalties starting up on Oct. 1 for providers who fail to adequately share patient data, many physicians are reporting struggles with exchanging health data between disparate EHR systems, reports The New York Times.

Horsham, PA, September 23, 2014 -- Office Practicum, a leading provider of electronic health records software (EHR) for the specialty of pediatric medicine, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the assets of Workflow.com, including their web-based multi-specialty EHR and Practice Management software.

As the October deadline for switching to ICD-10 comes ever closer, health care organizations are looking to their peers and to their payor partners for real-world practical advice. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, health benefits company serving primarily members in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, shared its lessons learned from ICD-10 implementation at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s March 10 conference on ICD-10 planning.