Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that healthcare professionals have a "long way to go in a very short time" in order to implement electronic medical records by 2013, according to a report in the Kansas…

Six IT tools are compatible with the American Hospital Association's upcoming initiative to monitor hospitals' experience with recovery audit contractors, according to the AHA's RACTrac Web site.

HealthSouth CEO Jay Grinney said the company's "digital hospital," which it abandoned six years ago, after putting $225 million into it, was "a very bad business decision" for HealthSouth, according to a report in the Birmingham (Ala.) News.

HCA East Florida has partnered with Healthagen, the developer of iTriage, to allow patients to access their ER wait times through smartphones, including the iPhone, and on the Internet, according to a Healthagen news release.

Blue Cross Blue Shield has notified physicians and other healthcare providers that data, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised when a laptop containing the information was stolen in August from an employee at BCBS Association's headquarters in Chicago,…

HHS has awarded $27.8 million to 27 health centers and health center networks across the country to implement electronic health records and other health information technology, according to an HHS release.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System has signed a letter of intent to serve as a partner to Wayne State University School of Medicine, the fourth largest medical school in the United States, according to a report by the Detroit Free…

Mentor, Ohio-based STERIS Corp. has entered into a collaborative relationship with Sunnyvale, Calf.-based Intuitive Surgical that will enable the companies to integrate their technologies into advanced minimally invasive surgical suites, according to a STERIS news release.

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New York plans to offer subsidizes of up to $40,000 over five years to each of its 7,000 affiliated physicians for adopting electronic health records, according to a report by the New York…

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has announced its 2009 Davies Award recipients for excellence in the use of health information technology, according to a HIMSS news release.