The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a non-profit organization whose members include 60 medical groups and six sponsoring health plans throughout Minnesota and surrounding states, will be using a health IT solution to prevent unnecessary testing for patients, according to…

Leaders of the National Institutes of Health and its nonprofit organization Foundation for the National Institutes for Health are demonstrating their commitment to the advancement of mobile health by issuing 150 grants in 2010 for mHealth research, according to a…

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has announced it will launch a new customized electronic health record certification program for hospitals without certified EHR systems on Dec. 15, according to a CCHIT news release.

A report published by financial advisory firm Marlin & Associates suggests companies in the healthcare information technology market will merge and consolidate into healthcare IT "mega firms" or "superstores" in the near future, according to a company news release.

St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is using a reservation program to limit the amount of time patients spend in the ED, according to a WMCTV report.

HIMSS, the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education and the Association of University Programs in Health Administration are teaming up to develop a healthcare IT curriculum, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests automated surveillance of clinical registries can help identify faulty cardiovascular devices, according to the study's abstract.

Encryption of patient data on hospital computers is now essential to protecting a hospital from legal and financial disaster, according to Robert Thibadeau, chief scientist for Wave Systems. A November study by non-profit organization Ponemon Institute reported that data breaches…

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente in Denver have concluded that targeted age-specific computerized alerts can reduce the number of D-dimer testing needed in elderly patients, according to the study's abstract.

A study published by the non-profit organization Ponemon Institute indicates that data breaches experienced by hospitals are more devastating to their reputations and financial standings than data breaches in other industries, according to a Forbes news report.