Proposed eligibility criteria for federal healthcare IT funding for hospitals and physicians are so strict that hardly anyone can meet them, not even technologically advanced Kaiser Permanente or Intermountain Healthcare, according to a report in the New York Times.

McKesson has announced the Connect-Rx software Release 7.1, which provides improved functionality for the company's AcuDose-Rx medication dispensing cabinets and Anesthesia-Rx medication carts and includes increases in charge capture, expanded restocking capabilities for pharmacies, improved medication availability for nursing and…

Metropolitan Medical Services of North Carolina and Spacelabs Healthcare have announced a distributorship that will allow MMS to sell the Spacelabs' BleaseSirius anesthesia delivery system in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and to certain accounts near Asheville, N.C., according to…

ChartWise Medical Systems is offering a personal edition of its ChartWise CDI software free of charge to clinical documentation specialists, according to a ChartWise news release.

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the awarding of $83.9 in grants to help health centers adopt electronic health records and other health information technology systems.

AdvancedMD Software has announced significant performance improvements to its AdvancedMD medical practice optimization software platform, including the addition of Akamai's Web Application Accelerator service to speed access to its web-based solution, according to an AdvancedMD news release.

Minnesota-based American Medical Systems has won a U.S. patent for covering the surgical methodology for implanting the AMS AdVance Male Sling, including broad patent coverage on transobturator surgical procedures to treat male incontinence, according to an AMS news release.

The University of Missouri has received a $6.8 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to create the Missouri Health Information Technology Assistance Center, which would help physicians set up electronic medical records systems, according to a…

A computer containing 500 surgical patients' medical records was stolen from Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center in April, according to a report by the Mercury News.

Vishal Mehta, MD, a Chicago-area orthopedic surgeon, has developed and launched a new web-based tool designed to alert patients of physician office wait times, according to the Wall Street Journal.