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With the release of the iPad in April, many healthcare experts predicted that it could be a “game changer” for the industry by spurring physician’s adoption of electronic medical records.

To make sure patients are safe, hospitals have to put their CPOE systems to the test, warned healthcare industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group in a report released in July. Leapfrog, one of the strongest advocates in healthcare for the use of CPOE – computerized provider order entry – called on the federal government to make testing mandatory.

In June, one of the biggest mergers of EHR vendors in quite some time was the talk of the healthcare IT world.

Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based healthcare system, announced in June it would hire more than 200 high-tech workers to help roll out its new clinical system across the country.

In June, Healthcare IT News reported on a burgeoning trend – a wider embracing of the flexibility and collaboration afforded by open source technology.

Chalk one up for the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase. Come 2013, the showcase, a popular draw at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference, will be on display and working on all things interoperable year-round in a new showroom in Nashville.

The regional extension centers (RECs) were a main focus for healthcare IT stakeholders this year.

With a more urgent timeline for data sharing across the country, the government is now rethinking the Nationwide Health Information Network – the NHIN.

There are two ways of looking at upcoming compliance deadlines for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10, Healthcare IT News reported in March.

In January, a provocative survey sponsored jointly by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell, found that data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them.