The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit curtly handed down an opinion in the Obama administrations favor by vacating and remanding the Commonwealth of Virginias challenge to the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Sen. Joe Simitians (D-Calif.) identity theft protection bill became law last week as California Gov. Jerry Brown signed California Senate Bill 24, which gives consumers the information they need to help prevent identity theft.

athenahealth, a developer of cloud-based business services for physician practices, released athenaCoordinator, a new cloud-based service designed to address systemic breakdowns that have prevented care coordination across the healthcare supply chain.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has been delegated to the role of secretariat for the International Organization for Standardizations Technical Committee 215 (ISO/TC 215) on health informatics by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

In an integrated healthcare world, a personal health record (PHR) provides a secure, patient-accessible destination for clinicians to deliver information to patients from an EHR or EMR. Much depends on how theyre used and by whom. And the question still remains: Will people embrace them?

The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association), a collaboration of 42 EHR suppliers, announced new leadership for the coming year following its annual elections in June.

Threatened with cutoff from Medicare reimbursements due to numerous safety violations, Parkland Hospital in Dallas has been working hard to heal its own wounds. Its clinical engineering department has played a crucial role in the effort. In an interview with Healthcare Technology Management, the departments director, Tom Collins, encouraged others to learn from the intense experience his team is living through as Parkland's compliance deadline approaches.

Clerity Healthcare, an IT solutions provider, has been selected by GE Healthcare as an exclusive systems integration technical solutions provider for GE Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers.