DENVER, April 25, 2013 -- South Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver metro area, along with their medical management company Physician Health Partners (PHP), have announced plans to connect the electronic health records systems of its 118 primary care providers to the CORHIO health information exchange (HIE).

A misdialed fax number led to a breach of mental health patient data. Fortunately, the breach impacted only one patient.

Ready or not, Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 is around the corner. The flip of the calendar page from 2013 to 2014 will mark the move from Stage 1 to Stage 2 for those on the leading edge of MU. Some changes are fairly simple, and represent an upping of the denominator on Stage 1 measures. While measures such as increasing the percentage of medication orders placed via CPOE from 30 percent in Stage 1 to 60 percent in Stage 2 are almost a piece of cake, others, particularly patient portals, are far more challenging. To learn more about those challenges and how pioneering organizations are addressing them, Clinical Innovation + Technology spoke with a trio of providers atop the HIMSS EMR 7-stage adoption model.

HORSHAM, Pa.-- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today it has entered into an agreement with Syracuse Community Health Center Inc. (SCHC, Inc.) to deploy NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, NextGen® Practice Management and NextGen® Electronic Dental Record (EDR) across its 16 locations within Syracuse and Central New York.

NANUET, N.Y., April 25, 2013 -- iMedicor (OTC: VMCI) today announced it has launched its flagship product, iMedicor SocialHIE, one of the first online social/professional networks to be coupled with a Health Information Exchange (HIE), for Physicians' Alliance of America (PAA), an organization comprising more than 34,000 physician members representing over 7,100 member practices of all sizes and specialties throughout the United States. iMedicor SocialHIE will enable PAA members to exchange patient-specific healthcare information through the Internet with other PAA members, as well as non-PAA members they invite into their communities, all within a HIPAA-compliant environment.

Got a burning health IT question? A newly launched website—breadcrumbsqa.com—is looking to become both the go-to resource for EHR users needing help with their systems, and as a place for health IT gurus to demonstrate their expertise by supplying the best answers.

Amid reports of increasing EHR adoption, it seems that Meaningful Use has reached a crossroads.

The increase in EHR adoption in community-based practices in Canada has led to efficiency and patient care benefits valued at $1.3 billion from 2006 to 2012.