A North Carolina judge has ordered Allscripts Healthcare Solutions to pay more than $9.7 million in an arbitration award to settle a 19-month lawsuit with a health IT services provider over its former EHR system.

EHRs could save the global healthcare industry as much as $78 billion over the next five years.

The American Medical Association continues to call for the governmnt to halt penalties in the Meaningful Use program, saying that full interoperability, which is not widely available, is necessary to achieve the goals of EHRs.

A preliminary assessment showed that access to clinical notes via the Department of Veteran Affairs’ OpenNotes program proved beneficial for patients, according to a study published in the American Medical Informatics Association.  

BOCA RATON, Fla.--Modernizing Medicine, Inc., the creator of the Electronic Medical Assistant®(EMA™), a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical record (EMR) system, announced that it has closed on approximately $15M of an expected $20M funding round

ADT alerts, or real-time clinical alerts of an admission, discharge or transfer, are helping healthcare organizations in Rhode Island reduce 30-day hospital admissions, duplicate testing and emergency department (ED) visits, according to a Health IT Buzz blog post.

CAMP HILL, Pa.--Rite Aid announced today it has entered into an agreement with HealthSpot®, a pioneer in patient and provider driven healthcare technology, to provide convenient healthcare services via private, walk-in HealthSpot stations inside select Rite Aid locations. Rite Aid will pilot the HealthSpot stations in the greater Akron/Canton, Cleveland and Dayton/Springfield markets.

HUDSON, Ohio--Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, is expanding its relationship with Amazing Charts, a division of Pri-Med™, to further both organizations’ missions of enhancing prescription workflow and patient education.