HERNDON, Va.Two state officials shared their decision-making process to take to the cloud for health information exchange (HIE) efforts during a presentation at the 2012 Healthcare IT Connect Summit on June 20. While still new to the exchange game, the officials shared the circumstances and needs that cloud computing ultimately met.

The Mobile Access to Health Documents profile has been released for public comment, according to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International.

While EHR vendors might say otherwise, authors published in the June 14 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine state that diverse functionality doesnt need to reside in a single EHR system.

States enacted more than 300 pieces of health IT legislation from 2000 to 2011, according to a report from the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) State Advisory Roundtable.

 ORLANDO, Fla.Since its launch more than two years ago, meaningful use (MU) has been plagued by myths. One of the more pervasive, detrimental and long-standing myths is that radiology practices cannot fulfill the criteria, said Arun Krishnaraj, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, during a June 7 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. However, practices can and have met MU. Whats more, Stage 2 could prove additionally meaningful for radiology, according to Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chair of informatics at MGH.

Three New York regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and three health information exchange (HIE) vendors will participate in the Statewide Health Information Network of New York, the New York eHealth Collaborative, along with the New York State Department of Health, announced.

GE Healthcare announced the acquisition of XPRO, a Brazilian interventional x-ray equipment manufacturer company with more than 120 systems (analog and digital) installed at private customer sites. Terms of this transaction were not disclosed.

The health information exchange (HIE) market will experience massive growth in spending by 2014 even though industry technology executives are exploring adoption rather than implementation at this point, according to a new survey from Black Book Rankings.