Chelsey Ledue

Thomson Reuters has acquired ProfSoft, Inc., a healthcare technology company that provides health plans with analytic software and services to assess physician and hospital performance.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that Medicaid programs in Tennessee and Pennsylvania will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Only .01 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have reached a Stage 7 electronic medical record - none until the middle of 2008.

Over 20 years of successful experience with electronic health records makes the Veterans' Health Administration a great model for the public sphere, according to an attendee at Sunday's "Veteran-centric Care: Putting the Power of Technology and Patient Care at the Core" session at HIMSS09.

Google has responded to Consumer Watchdog's call to end a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the current version of the economic stimulus legislation.

Consumer Watchdog has called on Google to end a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the current version of the economic stimulus legislation.

The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and healthcare providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by Jan. 1, 2010.