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.

Three senators want to know what happened to the nearly $600 million doled out to several health information exchanges between 2010 and 2014.

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.