National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, told one of his predecessors, David J. Brailer, MD, that health IT is on the move and quantitative outcomes are on the way in the U.S. in an interview published in the March issue of Health Affairs.

Acuo Technologies, a medical image management service developer, has integrated its Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) software with enterprise cloud storage services provider Nirvanixs public, hybrid and private cloud storage services.

After much speculation, the proposed rule for meaningful use Stage 2 has finally arrived. I was in the Las Vegas ballroom when Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, announced the highlights of the rule which primarily focuses on patient engagement, information exchange and clinical decision support. The audience cheered when it was conveyed that Stage 1 would be delayed and when Mostashari referred to efforts to increase flexibility and decrease regulatory burden.

Varian Medical Systems will acquire InfiMed, which supplies workstations including hardware and software for processing x-ray images.

Although well-intentioned and in response to pressure from healthcare providers, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decision to delay the implementation deadline could have negative consequences according to a survey of healthcare professionals involved in their organizations ICD-10 initiatives.

Health Canada has issued a medical device license for the Carestream DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system, approving its use by healthcare facilities in Canada.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is offering a Copy Functionality Toolkit eBook and Transcription Toolkit eBook to help health information management leaders develop practices that will ensure the quality of information in a health record.

Seventy-three percent of respondents to National eHealth Collaboratives 2012 Stakeholder Survey stated that better care coordination is one of the most important benefits of health information exchange (HIE).