E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on e-prescribing. Of the 190 million, more than four million e-prescriptions were routed to mail order pharmacies.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is questioning whether the current proposed regulations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program allot enough time for providers to achieve meaningful use before they are penallized.

Information management systems provider DR Systems has added to its list of medical facilities taking part in beta trials of its Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), a cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and radiology reports.

ATLANTA--GE Healthcare this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition rolled out a new clinical knowledge platform and announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform.

ATLANTAIn addition to demonstrating new InDex enterprise archive service features, InSite One also featured one of its actor/roles profiles from the 2010 North America IHE Connectathon at the Interoperability Showcase during HIMSS10 this week.

The potential advantages offered by health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-known. Theyll be vital spokes of the proposed Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) architecture initiative, streamlining patient care and records and providing accurate, nearly immediate test results to practitioners anywhere. The potential is promising, but the reality is no Field of Dreams scenario: If you build an HIE, subscribers will not necessarily come.

Electronic health information exchanges will do far more than just streamline patient care, increase medical record accuracy and availability and expedite billing.

The roots of the issues with health information exchanges namely, trust and expectations are important to highlight now.