ORLANDO--The time demands of federal mandates such as ICD-10 and Meaningful Use “drive my innovation push,” said Lyle Berkowitz, MD, associate CMIO of Northwestern Medicine, delivering the keynote address at the Innovation Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual meeting.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has issued proposals for the 2015 edition of EHR certification criteria.

The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing, a Burbank, Calif.-based nonprofit, is launching a year-long project to leverage health IT to facilitate access to care for underserved and low-income older adults at affordable housing communities, community health clinics and other institutions in a Los Angeles neighborhood.

Mixed messages for EHRs this month with Meaningful Use incentive payments increasing but dissatisfaction prevalent.

February 17, 2014 -- Black Book Rankings, well known globally for accurate, impartial customer satisfaction surveys in the services and software industries, conducted a sweeping four month user poll to determine the highest ranked electronic health and medical record vendors. As part of a major research focus on current e-Health initiatives, Black Book announced those vendors with the highest scores in client experience in the areas of Certification-Required EHR Functionalities, Administrative & Documentation Functionalities, Clinical Workflow Functionalities, e-Prescribing modules, Accountable Care Organization data needs and Health Information Exchange enterprises were also examined in the sweeping study.

Hospitals in the United Kingdom don't always take into account the full costs of implementing new EHR systems and should be better prepared if they are to maximize the benefits, according to research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

In the wake of an indictment of a hospital executive for false Meaningful Use attestation, the House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to investigate how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awards funds to hospitals that attest to Meaningful Use and what guidelines have been issued to prevent fraud and abuse of the program, the Dallas Morning News' "Watchdog Blog" reports.

Physicians are unhappy with EHR systems, with many citing high costs and negative impacts on patient care, according to a survey conducted by research firm MPI Group on behalf of Medical Economics.