HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has named Farzad Mostashari, MD, as new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, effective April 8, according to an HHS announcement.

In a survey of approximately 1,200 consumers in Feb. 2011, only 7 percent said they have used a personal health record, while 51 percent reported never being exposed to PHRs, according to IDC Health Insights research published in a Health…

Alabama and Missouri have launched their respective Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs, bringing the total number of states to 13, according to a Government Health IT news report. States that have already launched Medicaid EHR programs include Alaska, Michigan,…

Four out of five community hospitals believe they can achieve meaningful use by 2013 with their current electronic medical record systems, meaning one-fifth of community hospitals plan to switch their EMRs within the next couple of years, according to a…

A team of researchers led by the University of Michigan Health System has demonstrated continuous and discrete elements of anesthetic state transitions through an approach based on mathematical graph theory, according to a study published in the April 2011 issue…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's beacon communities will serve as stepping stones for the success of accountable care organizations, according to a Government Health IT news report.

The actual cost of storing patient information may not be that significant, said John D. Halamka, MD, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

Austin (Minn.) Medical Center and Albert Lea (Minn.) Medical Center, both part of Mayo Health System, are on track to go live with a new electronic medical record system this weekend, according to an Austin Daily Herald news report.

Study results showed prescribers and healthcare workers recognized the benefits and generally expressed positive attitudes after successfully adopting e-prescribing, according to research published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., has deployed an updated electronic health records system to replace its 15-year-old clinical information system, according to a news report by The Dartmouth.