Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Cook Children’s Health Care System, in partnership with athenahealth, Microsoft, Sanofi Pasteur and Merck, has launched a first-of-its kind program to use 2D barcodes on vaccines.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September paid out $25 million to 1400 eligible providers and $61 million to 30 dually eligible hospitals under the meaningful use EHR incentive program, according to Robert Anthony from the CMS Office of E-Health Standards and Services.

Small and resource-poor, the Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC), has shown it is not afraid to tackle - and complete - big projects, such as building an HIE from scratch and developing a telepharmacy system.

It's hard to overstate the impact Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, has had on technology for the past 30 years. In hardware, software, communications and design, Apple's contributions have been incalculable – not least in healthcare.

Lynne Thomas Gordon, the new CEO of the American Health Information Management Association, spent her first days on the job at the organization's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City this week. She spoke with Healthcare IT News about her expectations and the challenges ahead for the 63,000 member organization.

The title of this commentary is pure jargon, but does express the issue at hand. An alternative title "The Most Important Health Policy Decision Hidden as an Obscure Health IT Technical Evaluation that You May Never Have Heard of," would have also been accurate, but is grammatically unsound and too flippant for an important subject.

Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.

Just two days after announcing its acquisition of assets from Southlake, Texas-based CySolutions, Greenway Medical Technologies is making more news: the expansion of its Georgia headquarters and the addition of some 400 jobs.

Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of accountable care organizations (ACOs) for health reform.

Hard to believe, but it's been more than two and a half years since the HITECH Act first laid the lucrative incentives on the table to stimulate physician uptake of electronic health record adoption.