From its roots as a collaboration of the New York State Health Plan Association and Iroquois Healthcare Alliance, the Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) has grown to provide services in a 17-county region comprised of approximately 1.5 million healthcare consumers in the Greater Capital Region. Dominick Bizzarro, CEO of HIXNY, recently spoke with CMIO about the HIEs continuing plans for expansion.

Oregon Community Health Information Network, a Health Center Controlled Network providing health IT and service to community-based clinics, has partnered with Allscripts to resell Allscripts EHR and Practice Management system to physicians in that state.

A study published online in the Jan. 24 Archives of Internal Medicine found "no consistent association between EHRs and clinical decision support (CDS) and higher care quality for ambulatory patients.

Bostons Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been certified as a complete EHR under the EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH) certification program for installed hospital EHR technology.

The meaningful use program is a very wise concept, said David Blumenthal, MD, Chair of the Office of the National Coordinator. Congress is incenting effective use of technology rather than just the acquisition of technology. [Its] a pretty novel approach to promoting technology diffusion.

Although providers can use a variety of tools to improve electronic clinical decision support (CDS), 38 percent indicated that electronic order sets are having the greatest impact on their organization, according to a new KLAS report.

Routine mammograms can detect arterial calcium deposits among women with advanced kidney disease, according to a study published Jan. 20 in the online issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

CSC has unveiled its Coverage Exchange 360 software-as-a-service (SaaS) line to provide implementation and infrastructure services for health insurance exchanges.