A lighter touch with respect to Meaningful Use Stage 3 requirements will help improve interoperability, according to a draft report by the JASON task force, which is tasked with crafting a final report based on the advisory committee’s recommendations.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s 2014 Edition Release 2 Final Rule provides more choices for health IT developers and their customers, including new interoperable ways to exchange health data, said Michael Lipinski, JD, Office of Policy at the ONC, during an Oct. 2 webinar.

A tech error is why Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital accidentally discharged a patient diagnosed with Ebola, reports CBS News.

About 44,000 healthcare providers submitted hardship exemption applications for Meaningful Use before the July 1 deadline, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – September 30, 2014 – DataMotion™, an experienced health information service provider (HISP) with the industry’s leading record of customer deployments and Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) attestations, announced today that 37 electronic health record (EHR) vendors have rapidly achieved 2014 ONC-ACB certification using DataMotion's Direct secure messaging service as “relied upon software.” DataMotion has become the leading HISP for EHR enablement, and to date, nearly half of all EHR vendors that have successfully achieved certification, as well as many other diverse healthcare organizations, have done so through the quick and easy integration of its technology.

The Boulder City Hospital is getting nearly $2 million in federal funds to move from paper to EHRs.

Intermountain Healthcare and Cerner have announced their intention to pursue the lucrative $11 billion Department of Defense EHR modernization contract.

Nearly 75 percent of providers worldwide reported that clinical usability is more important than every other criteria when choosing an EMR, according to a report from global research firm KLAS.