The following is a roundup of recent health IT go-lives that have been reported within the past week.

Less than two weeks after the implementation of a Cerner electronic health record system at Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center, physicians began expressing patient safety concerns. According to a May 15 letter from medical staff leaders, the EHR had led…

The ONC has released a roadmap outlining its 10-year plan to achieve nationwide interoperability. The proposal sets specific goals and priorities for the three, six and 10-year mark:

The vast majority — 98 percent — of IT employees at healthcare organizations receive additional benefits along with their salaries, according to data from a recent HIMSS compensation survey.

A private health information exchange has successfully connected to Massachusetts' statewide HIE, Mass HIway. The connection marks the first HISP-to-HISP connection for the organization.

The University of Arizona Health Network, based in Tucson, has laid off 23 employees from the network's record keeping department following the implementation of an electronic health record system, according to a report in the Arizona Daily Star.

Medytox Solutions has purchased essentially all assets of electronic health record company Globalone Information Technologies.

Decades-old regulations currently prohibit information about a patient's drug or alcohol treatment to be shared without the patient consenting to each disclosure. Now, federal officials are looking to relax these laws to enable more robust health information exchange, according to…

It was on the battlefields of Iraq that Heather Roszkowski truly learned the importance of information security.

Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown, W. Va., has implemented Agfa HealthCare's DX-D Retrofit direct radiography system in its X-ray room.