The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revised its Frequently Asked Question document regarding questions over meaningful use and its application to emergency department patients, according to AHA News Now.

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, hospitals and healthcare organizations have the opportunity to become eligible for incentive payments upon demonstrating meaningful use of electronic medical records. However, a shortage of health IT workers in the healthcare…

Survey and market research company Black Book Rankings has release lists of the top 20 ranked vendors in each respective subgroup of EMR, acute care/hospital, emergency and physician groups by size, according to a BBR news release.

Greenway Medical Technologies, based in Carrollton, Ga., has added two more technologies to its PrimeSUITE electronic health record solution, according to a company news release.

The Office of the National Coordinator has announced the first version of software that will allow healthcare providers to engage in simple information exchanges, a crucial aspect of the first stage of meaningful use, according to a Government Health IT…

VA hospitals plan to speed up the process of obtaining medical records from private physicians by using a private contractor and Internet connections in a new pilot project, according to a news release by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Officials from the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn., are notifying approximately 8,000 patients that the facility did not properly dispose of hospital reports containing private information, posing potential risk of a privacy data breach, according to a…

The Veterans Affairs Department will provide an online tool veterans can use to compare the agency's 153 hospitals, similar to the Hospital Compare website, according to a Government Health IT news report.

Anesthesia, like many other specialties, is likely to undergo significant changes as the effects of health reform become clearer. Industry experts discuss five ways anesthesia provision will change over the next several years.

A less-invasive method to determine the state of non-small-cell lung cancer may spare patients the need for general anesthesia and surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.