Richard J. Poulton will join Allscripts as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 29.

A mix-up by a janitorial services firm is the source of a data breach at a Springfield, Mo., radiology group practice. Nineteen-member Litton and Giddings Radiological Associates has notified about 13,000 patients who had billing activity between July 23 and Aug. 2, 2012.

Physicians using EHRs performed better than their paper-based peers on quality of care for four screening measures for diabetes, breast cancer, chlamydia and colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the current issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

CHICAGO—With more than 30 Health Level 7 affiliates, it’s an international effort to update healthcare standards, said R. Lenel James, MBA, senior project director at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and member of Health Level 7’s Electronic and Personal Health Record Work Groups, speaking at the 84th American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Conference & Exhibition.

Linking to a breast screening program website within electronic communications between health providers is an effective way to raise awareness of essential information, according to research published Oct. 4 by BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

CHICAGO—The goals of Meaningful Use are supposed to be accomplished through the use of the EHR to encode, structure and communicate data with providers and systems, according to speakers on a session about standard terminology challenges at the 84th American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Conference & Exhibition.

CHICAGO--Rural hospitals are struggling more than other facilities to achieve expected levels of Meaningful Use over the next few years, according to a panel of speakers at the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) 84th Annual Conference & Exhibition.