The EHR adoption rate in U.S. medical offices is 36.1 percent, a 3.2 percent increase since February 2009, according to a report from health IT company SK&A, a Cegedim company.

The Department of Health and Human Services has named Joy L. Pritts, a lawyer, as the first chief privacy officer at its Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

InSite One (Booth #7555) is highlighting its IHE standards-based vendor-neutral InDex enterprise archive service, which can share patient information in a health information exchange, at the HIMSS10 conference in early March.

Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., will receive $12 million to help healthcare providers in Indiana adopt and use health IT with the establishment of the Indiana Healthcare IT Extension Center (I-HITEC).

Diagnostic imaging and health IT solutions provider Agfa Healthcare has entered into an installation agreement with the Montpellier University Hospital System in France.

MEDecision has introduced a new health information exchange service, InFrame, that allows healthcare organizations to share clinical dataincluding diagnostic-quality medical images among themselves and with patients.

The Georgia Department of Community Health has been award $13 million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support the states effort to expand EHR use and create the infrastructure for health information exchange (HIE).

The nonprofit organization Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP) has been awarded $43.3 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to help make EHRs more widely available in Ohio.