The Health IT Policy Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has approved steps to help healthcare providers identify other hospitals, clinics, labs and organizations through electronic directories, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

CHRISTUS Health, a non-profit Catholic health system based in Irving, Texas, has partnered with Medicity, a health information exchange solutions company, to launch an HIE infrastructure across seven states, including Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Utah and New Mexico,…

Although the rapid sophistication of computer tomography has made the technology an important diagnostic tool for healthcare providers, there has been increased focus on radiation dose reductions due to patient safety concerns by some parties. Radiation experts recently convened at…

Over 100 state and specialty medical societies, including the American Medical Association, are requesting that the Department of Health & Human Services revise its e-prescribing penalty policy, which currently states physicians will be penalized in 2012 if they are not…

A survey of nearly 950 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society members suggests iPad deployment is accelerating, largely due to the mobile device's point-of-care applications and uses, according to a news release.

Mountain Vista Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz., hasn't yet found the records of 2,284 endoscopy patients that have been reported missing since Oct. 13, according to a report by the Arizona Republic.

According to the 2011 Black Book Ranking's user survey, approximately 90 percent of healthcare providers that purchased electronic medical records technology are off track to meet their meaningful use implementation goals, according to a company news release.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has selected two more organizations to become ONC-authorized testing and certification bodies for electronic health records, according to the organization's website.

In a five-year retrospective analysis in Massachusetts, almost one-third of patients visited multiple hospitals, suggesting significant unnecessary services that could be reduced by health information sharing through IT systems, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Orion Health has partnered with the Alaska eHealth Network to provide technology for the state's health information exchange, according to an Orion news release.