The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is cited as a catalyst behind an increasing interest in health informatics and information management at the college level, according to the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has established a common security framework program to develop criteria and provide consistency in how information security products and services are evaluated.

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology is partnering with Logicalis to provide image management solutions to healthcare providers that are making the move to EHRs.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has awarded the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation a one-year, $1.2 million grant to continue the state-level health information exchange (SL-HIE) consensus project to assist states with nationwide HIE adoption, planning and implementation.

An automated electronic system that screens intubated ICU trauma patients for acute lung injury (ALI) based on chest x-ray reports and arterial blood gas results is sufficiently accurate to identify many early cases of ALI, according to a single-center validation study in the July/August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Volcano, a developer of products for the diagnosis of coronary and peripheral artery disease, has entered into a non-exclusive, global resale agreement with Siemens Healthcare.

The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) will be collecting input from the vendor and developer community on the details and timing of its planned new paths to certification of EHR technologies, with the goal of supporting more widespread adoption and meaningful use under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

State CIOs and IT executives should establish themselves as key stakeholders in the development of state health information exchanges (HIE), according to a report issued by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).