Bernie Monegain

Recent stimulus-induced EHR deals show sooner-than-expected adoption, especially in the hospital sector, according to investment firm Piper Jaffrey.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has unveiled The National Health Security Strategy, focused on protecting people's health during a large-scale emergency. The strategy sets priorities for government and non-government activities over the next four years.

Applications for the $6 million project for higher education institutions that want to develop competency exams for a new healthcare IT workforce are due Jan. 25, and details will be critical to success, said Charles Friedman, deputy national coordinator for healthcare IT.

Seventeen members and affiliate program participants of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives are the first to be credentialed as Certified Healthcare CIOs and CHCIO-Eligible.

Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe their ambulatory electronic medical record software will enable them to meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal government, according to a new report from KLAS.

HealthSouth, which provides inpatient rehabilitative services in 26 states, has implemented an automated recruitment platform to streamline the company's recruiting process and increase efficiency and privacy.

GE Healthcare and Intel have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the United Kingdom.

Tenet Healthcare will implement healthcare information technology at 47 hospitals, putting its move from paper charts to electronic health records on the fast track.

Scott MacLean, a hospital CIO in the Boston suburbs, is one of the 10 rising stars that healthcare IT leaders say they'll be watching in 2010.

Document sharing and integrated healthcare technology will play a critical role in the Radiological Society Of North America’s 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting Nov. 29-Dec. 4.