The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI), a nonprofit organization in Providence, R.I., seeking quality and safety improvements for healthcare in Rhode Island, has launched its statewide Direct Adoption Program.

What does meaningful use look like one year later? That was the point of a discussion during a press briefing hosted by the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and EHR Association in Washington, D.C., as industry leaders assessed year one of the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Leon Rodriguez has been appointed the director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed new rules to expand the rights of patients to access their health information through the use of health IT. Specifically, the new rule gives patients access to test results directly from labs.

Carestream Health has launched Carestream DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system as a works-in-progress.

Future policy activities, such as requirement specifications for the latter stages of meaningful use, should be leveraged as an opportunity to encourage standardization of functionality and broad deployment of personal health records (PHRs), according to an article published online Sept. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has officially drawn back the curtain on its new website, HealthIT.gov.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit curtly handed down an opinion in the Obama administrations favor by vacating and remanding the Commonwealth of Virginias challenge to the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).