Franciscan Alliance has selected Merge Healthcare's iConnect Access to image-enable its EMR and provide access to radiology and cardiology images and information across its network of 13 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois.

Carestream Vue RIS  v. 11 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a complete EHR on July 27 by the Certification Commission for Health Information in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Hartford Hospital and VNA HealthCare, a home health agency that is also part of the Hartford Healthcare system in Connecticut, has reported the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer containing thousands of patients' personal information.

Only 26 percent of Americans prefer their medical records in a digital format, according to the results of the third annual EHRs online survey of 2,147 U.S. adults, conducted for Xerox by Harris Interactive in May.

Mobile devices offer providers the opportunity to keep patient health information in their pockets at all times, but organizations should expect challenges if they decide on mobile deployment. Representatives from the Cleveland Clinic and Sutter Health shared their experiences deploying mobile EHRs at the 4th annual mHealth World Congress.

In the increasingly vast health IT landscape, it can be difficult to determine what jobs are available where. Thats why the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) developed a web-based, visualization of existing and emerging positions in the field.

The Commonwealth Fund's board of directors has named David Blumenthal, MD, the next president to succeed Karen Davis on Jan. 1, 2013.

Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a three-year contract by Premier Healthcare Alliance. The contract covers pricing and terms on Agfas line of digital radiography (DR) systems for the alliance's 2,600 member hospitals and 84,000 other healthcare sites in the U.S.