The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have reported that they are ready to launch registration on Jan. 3 for electronic health records incentive programs, according to a Government Health…

Progressing from basic electronic health record systems to advanced systems did not improve hospital care for patients being treated for heart failure, according to a report in the American Journal of Managed Care.

The Healthcare IT Policy Committee’s Quality Measure Workgroup will be accepting recommendations from the public until Dec. 23 on quality measures for Stage 2 and Stage of meaningful use, according to a Healthcare IT News report. The five core concepts…

Implementation of Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in the hospital setting has grown exponentially over the last few years as a key financial strategy to address and meet the tough economic challenges faced in today’s current healthcare business climate.  Hospitals have…

The U.S. and Europe have signed an eHealth agreement that establishes a common approach to training of health IT workers and interoperability standards of electronic health records, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will be establishing a community for developers of health IT where individuals can share ideas and collectively create solutions to challenges over meaningful use of electronic health records, according to a…

A laptop containing information on more than 3,000 patients of Dean and St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis., has been stolen from a Dean Clinic physician during a home invasion robbery, according to a Dean Clinic news release.

David Blumenthal, MD, the national health IT coordinator, seeks to quicken the pace on health information exchange after the White House's call for use of standard language in those exchanges, according to a Government Health IT news report.

A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office suggests the Federal Communications Commission's weakness in performance would hurt rural healthcare providers and their telecommunication needs, according to the GAO report.

Revisions and debates over a draft of stage 2 meaningful use requirements continue on with a focus on how much to increase thresholds from stage 1, according to an InformationWeek news report.