Bernie Monegain

The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has released two reports that show how nearly 40 percent of its physicians use health information technology on a regular basis.

Paul Tang, MD, chief medical information officer of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, a member of the editorial board of Healthcare IT News, and Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are among 13 members recently named to a new federal advisory committee on healthcare information technology.

The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint electronic medical record for streamlined movement of health records between the agencies, President Obama announced on Thursday.

The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM will build an information and technology-based primary-care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision for a connected healthcare system.

With a pledge to do their share to transform healthcare and help combat chronic disease, the CEOs of General Electric and Intel announced Thursday a partnership focused on the home health monitoring market.

John Loonsk, MD, who until recently served as director of interoperability and standards in the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), will join CGI Federal, Inc., as vice president.

The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway, a 265-bed community hospital in Rahway, N.J., has rolled out a new electronic medical system. Hospital executives say the technology is critical to the clinicians' goal of integrating patient care.

West Carroll Memorial Hospital, a 33-bed hospital in northeast Louisiana that is part of a health information exchange project, is rolling out an enterprise-wide electronic medical record.

Fifteen Kaiser Permanente employees have been fired and another eight disciplined for sneaking a peek at the medical records of octuplet mother Nadya Suleman, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

Beaumont Hospitals in Royal Oak, Mich., will expand its existing picture archiving and communication system to include a system for imaging and reporting in its cardiology department.