The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has agreed to expand the time span during which it would pay to support regional extension centers from two years to four years, according to a Government Health IT news report.

An analysis of more than 250,000 ambulatory patient visits has found that use of electronic health records had an insignificant role in improving the quality of care, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Health IT vendors and standards organizations are working hard but having a tough time enabling the exchange of health information, according to a Government Health IT news report.

Here are three current trends on health IT adoption.

States can now apply for grant funding from the Department of Health & Human Services, which would be used to implement health insurance exchanges that are required by the Affordable Care Act, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

A survey conducted by Thomson Reuters and HCPLexus suggests physicians are generally concerned about the negative effect of healthcare reform and electronic medical records on patient care, according to the executive summary.

Half of U.S. hospitals are at risk of failing to meet federal requirements for achieving meaningful use of electronic medical records and may incur penalties by 2015, estimated at $3 million to $4 million a year for a 500-bed hospital,…

Clinical Insight, a medical records and business marketing program created by a University of Rochester heart specialist, is suing the University of Rochester for allegedly breaking agreements with the business concerning the university's use of the program, according to a…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will be clarifying its guidelines for creating standard clinical document formats, which would be used for the exchange of patient information summaries, according to a Government Health IT news report.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has announced a proposal to collect information regarding the challenges Medicaid providers face while meeting the criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records, according to an announcement in the Federal Register.