The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has announced state officials discovered an unauthorized removal of a computer hard drive from the state's Office of Information Technology Department, according to a department news release.

A study by IT services and consulting firm CSC reported that achieving meaningful use compliances is the number one priority for healthcare executives, according to a CSC report.

In 2008, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, Wyo., decided to implement an EMR system. Within 18 months, at a cost of $2 million, MHSC became the first hospital in Wyoming to have a fully implemented, integrated EMR.…

A 12-month project called OpenNotes will analyze the consequences of making doctors' notes fully accessible to patients in electronic form, according to an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine found that implementation of EHR can improve medical office efficiency and time management without diminishing trust in the physician-patient relationship, according to the Annals report.

Governor Martin O'Malley and medical industry leaders said Maryland begin its launch of its Electronic Health Information Exchange in September with hospitals in Montgomery County, according to a report by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Castle Connolly Medical, a medical rating company in New York City that publishes a list of America's Top Doctors, has announced that it will begin to recognize physicians who incorporate "meaningful use" of EHR in their practices, according to a…

California, New York and Florida stand to earn the most from the billions earmarked to incentive meaningful use of electronic health records technology, according to a Practice Fusion news release.

Back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information on around 800,000 South Shore Hospital patients over the last 14 years may have been lost during a shipment to a data management company, according to a report by the Boston…

Consultant Becky Quammen of Quammen Health Care Consultants works with hospitals to implement electronic medical records systems, most recently taking Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb., live on an EMR within six months. Here she talks about her streamlined…