In a federal hearing, hospital and physician representatives urged HHS to simplify "meaningful use" requirements for Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs, according to a release by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.

Scientists from University of California, San Francisco will collaborate with Bayer HealthCare under a new master agreement, according to a San Francisco Business Times report. Few details of the partnership were released and no financial terms were disclosed. The number…

The Cleveland Clinic will help doctors at MedStar Health, a nine-hospital system in the Washington, D.C., area, turn their ideas into marketable inventions, according to a report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Here is a list of 10 hospitals and health systems that reported significant data breaches over the last year.

The National Quality Forum has published two new reports in support of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, according to an NQF news release.

The first electronic health record incentive payment to a hospital went to University of Kentucky Healthcare, which received $2.86 million in federal funds, or one-third of its expected full payment, according to a report by Health Imaging.

The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 incents hospitals and other providers that implement and demonstrate meaningful use of healthcare IT. As a result, more and more hospitals are implementing electronic medical records and other solutions…

The Office of the National Coordinator will grant more than $12 million in additional funding to regional extension centers in order to assist critical access and rural hospitals in achieving meaningful use, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

The Department of Health & Human Services will be tracking healthcare information technology innovations and trends to help the department scan potential health IT breakthroughs, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

Researchers suggest the use of imaging clinical decision support can substantially decrease the utilization of advanced imaging, according to a study published in Journal of American College of Radiology.