Molly Merrill

The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) is implementing a clinical research management system to track patient data for clinical trials and billing purposes.

Electronic prescribing has seen significant growth in adoption and use of critical components, according to the annual National Progress Report on E-Prescribing.

The American Medical Association is planning to offer a health information exchange solution to its 240,000 member physicians and other interested physicians.

President Barack Obama named Aneesh Chopra as the administration's new chief technology officer during his weekly address on Saturday.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, has developed a new accreditation program for application service providers for electronic health records.

The Mayo Clinic, in partnership with Microsoft, has launched a free online application to help patients better manage their medical information.

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is developing an e-prescribing prototype that will facilitate prescription routing for the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY).

The New York State Department of Health will use services from APS Healthcare and Thomson Reuters for its Medicaid clinical best practice utilization review program.

Although few U.S. hospitals have a comprehensive electronic health records system in place, many have parts of an EHR - which could help spur adoption faster than data may suggest, says a New England Journal of Medicine article.

With security breaches involving medical data on the rise, experts say hospitals must become proactive in managing their vulnerabilities.