CHICAGO--The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA), and Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) have called on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to immediately suspend the distribution of incentive payments related to the EHR program.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is calling for improved and unified Health Information Governance "to standardize EHR use to ensure the technology fulfills its promise of guiding better, more efficient patient care."

Indiana’s state health information exchange (HIE) program has a goal of driving interoperability by connecting disparate systems into a more cohesive network.

Yuma Regional Medical Center welcomes Robert D. Budman, MD, MBA, as CMIO. In this role, he will provide physician leadership in the optimization of YRMCCare, Yuma Regional’s EHR.

EHR implementation at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) facilities led to improved drug treatment intensification, monitoring and physiologic control among patients with diabetes and high cholesterol, according to research published Oct. 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The health IT community should allow reviews and comparisons of EHR products if it wants to avoid formal regulation by the FDA, according to a new discussion paper from the Institute of Medicine, Comparative User Experiences of Health IT Products: How User Experiences Would Be Reported and Used.​

EHRs would benefit if developers had the ability to create applications for them. Several organizations are working to build the open architecture to allow it, according to the panelists of a Sept. 15 presentation at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 conference.