Christus Santa Rosa Health System of San Antonio has named George Gellert, MD, for the newly created regional medical informatics officer position.

The Rhode Island Quality Institute took on the technical responsibilities for the statewide health information exchange (HIE) system, currentcare, at the end of July 2010. Equipped with government financial backing, the HIE is starting to take off the ground.

At a roundtable discussion during the June CMIO Summit in Boston, four physician IT leaders brainstormed on how to improve healthcare quality, create usable data and engage patients in their own care. Sponsored by an educational grant from Oracle

Community Health Information Collaborative (CHIC) has announced the consolidation of its business operations with Minnesota Health Information Exchange (MN HIE).

When transferring images, it is important to have a process that promotes the validation of data, and includes the patient in the process, according to an article published in this month's Journal of Digital Imaging.

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System of Houston has launched a program to help push patient health data to authorized caregivers via the Memorial Hermann Information Exchange (MHIE).

To be in the arena of health information exchanges (HIEs) right now is to be in a state of unrest as disruptive technologies and business models begin integrating themselves into the clinical collective consciousness. And yet, rattling the IT cages most likely settles into creature comforts once the providers become comfortable with the ephemeral nature of the state of HIEs.

Last week, St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Del., sent letters to nearly 500 maternity patients who had participated in its prenatal and maternity care program Tiny Steps in 2001 or 2002, notifying them that their personal healthcare information may have been compromised because of an inadvertently misplaced computer thumb drive.