Nonprofit standards development organization Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) has set the adoption of program criteria for 2010 accreditation programs.

Axolotl has announced it successfully passed testing at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon event in Chicago.

Aggressive interoperability timelines require specific implementation guides and reference implementations, wrote John D. Halamka, MD, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in his blog, on which he summarized the comments he received from colleagues concerning the interim final rule and notice of proposed rule-making for the proposed meaningful use definitions.

Misys successfully tested two open-source components needed to run a health information exchange (HIE) at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon in Chicago.

Fremantle Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, has installed six Carestream Health's DRX-1 systems in general x-ray rooms across the 450-bed facilitys radiology and emergency departments.

E-prescribing could help improve coordination of patient care, although barriers including cost and lack of standards need to be worked out, said speakersata Webinar hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit eHealth Initiative.

Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of U.S. health executives polled for a survey on the impact of technology in healthcare reform agree or strongly agree that the American healthcare system is in a state of crisis, according to a report by StatCom.

The State of California Health and Human Services Agency has decided to form a new governance entity for California health information exchange (HIE). The California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) board of directors is honoring its commitment to the state not to compete with a new governance entity established for this purpose by disbanding.