Nonprofit standards development organization Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) has set the adoption of program criteria for 2010 accreditation programs.

Axolotl has announced it successfully passed testing at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon event in Chicago.

Aggressive interoperability timelines require specific implementation guides and reference implementations, wrote John D. Halamka, MD, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in his blog, on which he summarized the comments he received from colleagues concerning the interim final rule and notice of proposed rule-making for the proposed meaningful use definitions.

Misys successfully tested two open-source components needed to run a health information exchange (HIE) at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon in Chicago.

E-prescribing could help improve coordination of patient care, although barriers including cost and lack of standards need to be worked out, said speakersata Webinar hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit eHealth Initiative.

The State of California Health and Human Services Agency has decided to form a new governance entity for California health information exchange (HIE). The California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) board of directors is honoring its commitment to the state not to compete with a new governance entity established for this purpose by disbanding.

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rules for incentive payments to eligible healthcare professionals and hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and meaningfully use certified EHR technology is the result of unprecedented collaboration among leaders from all areas of healthcare. However, the 556-page document, released Dec. 30, 2009, is raising questions and concerns in the healthcare community--some of which were raised by two CIOs in a CMIO interview.

Research, published in the January/February issue Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, found the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Trial Implementations project showed proposed data specifications as the starting point for data exchange nationally were quite suitable for the goals of the project and for the eventual NHIN rollout, said lead author Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, PhD., in an interview.