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Department of Health and Human Services officials have launched a new program, developed under the Affordable Care Act, aimed at eliminating medical errors on a national scale.

By early summer, four communities in Colorado will be able to securely share patient information through the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization's (CORHIO) network.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has paid out more than $37 million to providers under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs this year.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released March 31, will be one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act and will be key to overhauling the U.S. healthcare system, said Donald Berwick, MD, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Ochsner Health System, with eight hospitals and 40 health centers in Louisiana, is deep into the deployment of a new Epic electronic health record system.

Delay would be at expense of early adopters, but vendors and providers say there is not enough time to develop and deploy EHR updates.

Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., recognized for its research, clinical trials, prevention, care and personalized medicine, is about to get even more personal – powered with new analytics technology that will enable researchers to zero in on individual cells in a way they never could before.

Kaiser Permanente this week has opened a new Center for Total Health near Capitol Hill.

Meaningful use Stage 1 is now in effect, and work has already begun in earnest to define the criteria for Stage 2.

Kudos to David Blumenthal, MD, as he returns to his academic work after what many in the health IT realm view as a stellar two-year run (and we do mean run) as the nation’s health information technology chief.