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).

 WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--Essia Health, the premier provider of specially trained medical scribes and electronic medical record (EMR) go-live support services, today announced that it has acquired Bellevue, Washington-based Eastside Specialty Scribes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 2015-- Today, Augmedix announced that it has received $16 million in Series A venture funding.

Connecticut's health information exchange, known as Health IT Exchange (HITE-CT), is shutting down. Its failure is due in large part to internal mismanagement and bad privacy policies that undermined the public trust, according to Ellen Andrews, executive director of the Connecticut Health Policy Project.

Meaningful Use was the big topic in health IT this week with the news that the Stage 3 proposed rule will soon be published but concerning figures about Stage 2 attestation.

The Health Information Trust Alliance has added additional privacy controls to its Common Security Framework.

Maine’s health information exchange, HealthInfoNet, is now offering providers analytics and predictive tools to study market share, clinical performance, population health and patient risk in real-time. 

More than half (55 percent) of physicians do not plan to attest to Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2015, according to a survey of almost 2,000 members of SERMO, a social network for physicians.