A successful newborn screening program depends on reliable and secure multidirectional flow of patient information among data users, as well as long-term availability of such information as life changes for the patient, according to an article in the January edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

Finding ways to help regional health information organizations (RHIOs) become operational and self-sustaining will bolster the current approach to nationwide health IT, according to an article in the December edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded health information management nonprofit, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation, a $48,000 research development conference grant to lead a two-day summit, based on a project to improve health services research agenda to leverage health IT in rural America.

St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) in Southern California has chosen Accenx Exchange as its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform from Accenx Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of data management company Initiate Systems.

The Pennsylvania Governors Office of Healthcare Reform issued a strategic plan this month in the hope of streamlining the creation of a health information exchange (HIE) through a collaboration between the governments of Pennsylvania and Delaware.

InSite One, a provider of medical data archiving and disaster recovery managed services, has created a health information exchange (HIE), spanning more than 600 healthcare institutions across the U.S.

The Carolina eHealth Alliance has selected Telus Health Solutions' health information exchange (HIE) product, Oacis HIE, to electronically connect patient records across 12 disparate emergency departments in South Carolina.

Healthcare officials in Washington are discussing standards for the technical architecture of modern health information exchanges. And while such standards havent yet been finalized to meet the objectives of meaningful use of electronic medical records, the U.S. government starts doling out $564 million in grants to states in early 2010 to fund state-level networks for exchanging electronic patient information.