Physicians do not receive adequate training to effectively use their EHRs, according to a report released by AmericanEHR Partners. Almost half (49.3 percent) of respondents received three or fewer days of training. However, three to five days of EHR training was necessary to achieve the highest level of overall satisfaction, according to the report.

athenahealth, a developer of cloud-based practice management, EHR and patient communication services to medical groups, has announced an increase in net income and revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, ending Sept. 30.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the final rule Oct. 20 for the establishment of accountable care organizations (ACOs) under the Medicare Shared Savings Program created by Section 3022 of the healthcare reform law.

Based on the reports of 198 CIOs, 26 percent said their organizations have qualified to receive stimulus funding under the HITECH Act portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act within the first full year of the program, according to a survey by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

Orion Health and Microsoft have signed two agreements in the field of e-health. In Asia Pacific, wholly owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific, has signed an agreement to purchase Microsofts hospital information system (HIS) software assets, including RIS/PACS, previously known as Amalga HIS. The two parties also have signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their intent to co-market their health information exchange (HIE) and data aggregation and analysis productsOrion Health HIE and Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence Systemto the public and private HIE and integrated delivery network markets.

Fourteen critical access hospitals have joined the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), Nebraska's statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) within the past month.

Healthcare organizations need both a social media policy and a social media strategy, according to a report from Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) who added that organizations cannot afford to take a wait-and-see approach while social media overhauls information communications.

GE Healthcare has aligned with the regional extension center New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) to increase physician EMR adoption and support meaningful use attainment in the state of New York.