In naming Sue Schade the 2014 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year, her peers in CHIME bestowed upon her the profession’s highest honor, one that Schade earned the old-fashioned way. She is the veteran of several large EHR implementations since 2000, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she gained national attention for their use of the balanced scorecard, and most recently guiding an EHR implementation at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Center, where she has served as CIO since 2012.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for eligible professionals to attest to Meaningful Use to March 20.

In the ongoing saga of the Department of Defense's (DoD) $11 billion contract to modernize its EHR system, a presolicitation notice reveals that the list of competing bidders has been whittled down but does not reveal the remaining contenders.

CHICAGO – February 24, 2015 – SA Ignite, Inc., a provider of a cloud-based software solution that automates, accelerates, and simplifies the Meaningful Use (MU) program processes for eligible healthcare providers, today announced it has expanded its relationship with The NYC Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health (NYC REACH) to offer its solution, MU ASSISTANT®, to 500 additional providers.

EHR vendors are charging providers exorbitant prices to interface systems to allow for data sharing, thwarting the goals of the Meaningful Use program.

Incidents of medical identity theft increased by more than 20 percent in fiscal year 2014 compared to the year prior, according to a recently released survey by the Ponemon Institute.

Stiffer competition between key vendors is causing a growing number of providers to be undecided about which EMR to purchase when looking to make a buying decision, according to a new report from KLAS.

In case there was any doubt, the Meaningful Use program did spur notable health IT adoption, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.