The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Quality Insights of Pennsylvania to develop and maintain quality measures for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). PQRI Measure 130, Documentation & Verification of Current Medications in the Medical Record, has been referred for further action in an effort to remove National Quality Forum time-limited endorsement status of the measure.

Anthony P. Catinella, MD, has been promoted to CMIO at University Physicians Healthcare (UPH), based in Tucson, Ariz. In this position, he will head up the use and development of IT systems to store and access medical information in the clinical environment in all UPH hospitals and clinics.

athenahealth has named Dev Ittycheria to its board of directors, increasing the number of directors to eight, according to the Watertown, Mass.-based developer of web-based practice management, EHR and patient communication services to medical groups.

New information about the quality of care available in U.S. outpatient and emergency departments, including how well hospitals care for patients with heart attacks and protect outpatients from surgical infections, was added to the Department of the Health and Human Services website.

Medical imaging developer DR Systems has added a new capability to its cloud-based technology platform, Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), the eMix Preview.

With all the hype about meaningful use (MU) and the drive for EHRs, its easy to lose sight of the fact that EHRs, CPOE and some other watchwords of MU have been around for a while. Just ask the experts.

Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise 5.5 inpatient, ambulatory and emergency care EHR combination has earned premarket conditional certification for 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).

Lincoln Medical and Mental Center of the Bronx, New York, has notified patients that several CDs containing patient information were lost, although the facility said it has no knowledge of improper data access has occurred as a result of the loss.