UPMC Altoona (Pa.) Hospital plans to offer telemedicine services this fall in the emergency room and maternity unit, according to a WTAJ report.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center plans to implement a telemedicine program to help treat patients in the Dominican Republic, according to a Cincinnati Business Courier report.

Electronic medical record platform provider Modernizing Medicine has introduced a new system enabling Physician Quality Reporting System reporting through their EMR, according to a news release.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) signed a law that caps the amount healthcare providers can charge patients for digital and paper copies of their medical records.

The federal health insurance marketplace was unable to resolve 2.6 million of the 2.9 million inconsistencies — 89.6 percent — on applications for enrollment in health plans, according to a report from HHS' Office of the Inspector General.

An employee at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., has been arrested and accused of stealing data from a clearing house used by the hospital, according to an AL.com report.

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According to data CMS released in June, eight hospitals have attested to meaningful use stage 2. DuBois (Pa.) Regional Medical Center was among the first.

“Historically, a lot of the technology we've asked physicians to adopt seems to have created inefficiencies along with the benefits," says Davin Lundquist, MD, CMIO of Dignity Health in San Francisco.

In late June, Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health announced plans to launch a fully integrated inter-network health information exchange this summer.