The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will be establishing a community for developers of health IT where individuals can share ideas and collectively create solutions to challenges over meaningful use of electronic health records, according to a…

A laptop containing information on more than 3,000 patients of Dean and St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis., has been stolen from a Dean Clinic physician during a home invasion robbery, according to a Dean Clinic news release.

David Blumenthal, MD, the national health IT coordinator, seeks to quicken the pace on health information exchange after the White House's call for use of standard language in those exchanges, according to a Government Health IT news report.

A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office suggests the Federal Communications Commission's weakness in performance would hurt rural healthcare providers and their telecommunication needs, according to the GAO report.

Revisions and debates over a draft of stage 2 meaningful use requirements continue on with a focus on how much to increase thresholds from stage 1, according to an InformationWeek news report.

Ohio State University Medical Center will spend $102 million on an electronic medical record system over the next five years, according to a Columbus Dispatch report. OSU hospital will use Epic, which it has first initiated at its outpatient facilities…

A study conducted by University of California—Davis researchers suggests electronic medical records in hospitals and clinics may have varying effects on different types of primary care physicians, according to a news release.

The Institute of Medicine has created a committee focused around studying patient safety and health information technology, according to a New York Times report.

What will it take for patients to feel safe during their hospital stays? According to a report published last month in The New England Journal of Medicine, hospitals need an increase of corrective actions in order to prevent patients from…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has announced that regional health IT extension centers have already enrolled more than 28,000 physicians, according to a Government Health IT news report.