The Western Health Information Network (WHIN), a regional health information organization serving Southern California, has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio for a pilot project to test how unique patient identifiers can increase patient control over their clinical information and improve the quality of medical records.

RadNet has executed a series of agreements to provide radiology services to Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District and related parties in the Imperial Valley region, east of San Diego.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is welcoming the proposed rules from the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) requiring accounting of disclosure, according to Bonnie Cassidy, AHIMA president.

An average clinician spends 122 hours per year (three business weeks) trying to access information from various EMRs, according to a June report from the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Imprivata.

A new 3D x-ray method, SAXS-CT, offers detailed images of brain cells and maps the myelin sheaths of nerve cells, which are key to understanding conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, according to Danish research published in the July issue of NeuroImage.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights has launched a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the HIPAA Privacy Rules standard for accounting of disclosures of protected health information (PHI) and electronic PHI.

Portable DR is significantly quicker than CR, shaving an average of 26 seconds off each exam and eliminating the positioning challenges of fixed DR, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Sixty-seven percent of regional health information organizations (RHIOs) surveyed did not meet the criteria for financial viability, according to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.