Leadership is an important element in successfully steering a hospital through any health information technology implementation effort. Strong leadership will help hospital staff adjust to barriers that may accompany health IT implementations and slow down success.

The Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration has issued a report (pdf) to HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health to improve the sharing of electronic health records among health information exchanges during disasters.

Amedica Corp., has announced it has received FDA clearance for a second generation interbody fusion device system, according to a news release.

The Missouri Health Connection, a statewide health information exchange, has announced five hospitals and healthcare providers as the first participants in the exchange.

Today, HHS awarded a new round of Affordable Insurance Exchange Establishment Grants to five states and the District of Columbia to build health insurance exchanges.

Electronic medical records are becoming more common and, in many cases, are perceived by physicians to be improving the quality of care, according to a recent survey commissioned by The Physicians Foundation and conducted by Merritt Hawkins.

New York City-based Fluent Medical and Nightingale Informatix Corporation are partnering to create iPatient Anesthesiology, an anesthesiology-specific billing solution, according to Healthcare Global.

When the stage 2 final rule for meaningful use was released, the healthcare industry expressed generally positive feedback. However, a few organizations, such as the American Hospital Association, expressed some discontent with the rule and its requirements — provisions like…

Sixty-seven percent of CIOs reported shortages of information technology staff at their healthcare organizations, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released its second and third waves of draft test procedures and tools to test and certify electronic health record systems under Stage 2 meaningful use criteria.