The Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) have rolled out the HIMSS Privacy & Security Toolkit for Small Provider Organizations.

Sage Healthcare is participating in the Medical Society of Virginia's EHR vendor program called Health IT Select.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015," an 80-page guide to federal efforts and investments in health IT in the next five years.

This is the sixth installment in CMIO's exclusive web series exploring the birth of Rhode Islands statewide health information exchange (HIE), featuring the leading stakeholders and clinical perspectives on its development.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has updated its ICD-10 tools with a Top 10 List for Phase 1 ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation Plan Development and Impact Assessment.

CMIO.net presents a weekly update of the EHR products certified by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCBs). The following EHR certifications were announced recently:

Cardiologists have been at the forefrontsome would say bleeding edgeof EMR adoption and data integration. Now, practices that werent in the early adopter vanguard stand to benefit from their pioneering peers efforts, but they still need to proceed with caution. There are plenty of systems that suffer from persistent and often paralyzing lack of interoperability.

In a multiple-EMR environment, is it smarter to keep your existing investments working together while adding best-of-breed IT systems, or to start over with a single-system approach? This is a question facing more facilities as EMR systems mature and the meaningful use program dictates to some extent which systems and combinations of systems will qualify for incentive dollars.