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…

A survey conducted by Embarcadero Technologies in San Francisco showed EHR implementations are the top priority for healthcare IT professionals, according to a news release by Embarcadero.

A California physician discusses the impact of inhaled anesthesia on global warming in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, according to news release by the International Anesthesia Research Society.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to spend $144 million in grant money to help college and universities train healthcare IT workers starting next fall, according to a report by ComputerWorld.

No one said implementing an electronic medical record was going to be easy. Patrick Murfee, director of information technology at Hemphill County Hospital, a small, rural hospital in Canadian, Texas, shares three challenges in the implementation process and how to…

Donald Berwick, MD, appointed chief of Medicare and Medicaid during last week's Congressional recess and sworn in on July 12, briefed the press on electronic medical records on his first day of work, according to a report by The Boston…

Following the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services release of finalized "meaningful use" requirements that providers must meet to quality for incentive payments, hospitals are becoming more anxious about successfully implementing an…

In its final rule release yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have significantly eased requirements for providers planning to adopt, following complaints that regulations were too strict, according to a report by The Hill.