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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded grants to 44 healthcare organizations to improve access to healthcare in rural areas. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the announcement on Tuesday. The 44 healthcare grantees are part of a $34.7 million grant that was made available to 106 projects in 38 states and one territory to fund educational projects and expand access to healthcare services in rural areas through USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program.

In a broad State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama hailed the information age in America and the need for the federal government to support IT innovation.

Rural and Native Americans, ethnic minorities in poor, urban communities and Alaskan Natives often suffer negative health outcomes disproportionately due to a lack of access to various health IT tools, according to five research studies published in Perspectives in Health Information Management.Perspectives in Health Information Management is the online quarterly journal of scholarly research from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation.

athenahealth has announced that it will be providing its revenue cycle management services to Summit Medical Group (SMG), New Jersey's largest independently operated, multispecialty medical group. SMG serves patients in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and will be deploying athenaCollector, the Company's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service, to more than 230 medical providers in its growing New Jersey health network.

Mobility is a "vital" sign that should be regularly checked in adults over the age of sixty, and according to two health and exercise science professors at Wake Forest University, the iPad is just the tool for the job. Mobility is closely linked to overall health and quality of life, but healthcare professionals have not had an easy and effective way to assess it.