Health information exchanges are expanding in new areas and to new providers while, on a federal level, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a governance framework to aid in establishing trust among exchange partners.

The HIMSS EHR Association offered up its two cents on the Republican senators’ white paper, “Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to Successfully Adopt Health IT,” asserting that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) EHR incentive program should be maintained.

A $1 million rural health information exchange (HIE) incentive program aims to help California healthcare providers implement technologies that enable the secure and reliable exchange of health information to improve quality of care, lower costs and achieve Meaningful Use criteria.

PITTSBURGH, May 21, 2013 -- Net Health, the leading provider of clinical solutions for outpatient specialty care, announced today the acquisition of Integritas, Inc., a provider of integrated clinical EMR and practice management solutions for the growing urgent care, occupational health, and hospital employee health markets.

Claiming it has failed to improve patient care, the Health Innovation Council—an independent group of healthcare experts—is urging Congress to take a second look at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS’s) EHR incentive program.

A coalition of consumer organizations has responded to the Republican senators who called for a reboot of the Meaningful Use (MU) program, recommending instead that the program be strengthened and maybe even accelerated.

Asheville, NC May 16, 2013 -- DoctorDirectory, a leading marketing solutions company serving healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical industry clients, asked their community of HCPs to submit questions for a series of peer surveys. After collecting the submissions, the questions were divided up into separate surveys and sent to HCPs across the United States. Results from the EHR study were recently published.

Miami, FL, May 16, 2013 -- dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions.