Meaningful Use is in the headlines again and not in a good way.

Children’s Hospital of Orange  County (CHOC Children's Hospital) in Orange, Calif., has earned HIMSS Analytics' Stage 7 Award, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), which is used to track EHR progress at hospitals and health systems.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2015-- Practice Fusion, the #1 cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) for doctors and patients, announced an agreement with OPTIMIZERx Corporation (OTCQB: OPRX) to integrate its patient savings and support system into the Practice Fusion EHR.

Although reports so far on Meaningful Use Stage 2 progress appear bleak, federal health officials counter that the majority of providers eligible to attest to MU Stage 2 already have done so.

The American College of Physicians has issued recommendations for improving clinical documentation in EHRs to combat 'note bloat'--overloading of extraneous data.

Several organizations led by the Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation are seeking volunteers for a virtual clipboard initiative designed to facilitate the patient intake process, including automating the collection of critical health insurance and demographic information.

Legislators have reintroduced the Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill granting the nation's healthcare providers additional flexibility in meeting Meaningful Use requirements through a shortened reporting period in 2015.

MILFORD, Mass., Jan. 12, 2015-- Psyche Systems Corporation's, WindoPath® Version 8 has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible providers and hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).