Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has selected InterSystems Ensemble platform as the foundation for its integration hub for clinical IT systems.

Mac McMillan has been selected as chair of the Health Information Management Systems Societys (HIMSS) Privacy and Security Steering Committee.

HMS Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Allied Management Group (AMG-SIU), a provider of fraud, waste and abuse prevention and detection for healthcare payors, in an all-cash transaction.

Jay D. Miller has joined Zonare Medical Systems as president and CEO, as the companys former CEO, Donald J. Southard, has resigned.

Those dog days of summer? They might be greyhounds. As we enter July, theres no summertime lull in sight for the health IT news cycle.The final rule for meaningful use still lurks, and the official word is we should expect it any day. The word from the field, as PwC found, is that 80 percent of hospital CIOs are concerned or very concerned they will not be able to demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs within the federally established deadline of 2015. The Leapfrog Group warned  that CPOE with oversight could be harmful to patients health.

Handheld device sales for healthcare use reached $8.2 billion globally in 2009 and are expected to increase 7 percent for the next five years as physicians and hospitals purchase new IT systems, according to a report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.

Without proper monitoring, health IT such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems could inadvertently harm patients, according to a new report by the Leapfrog Group.

InSite One has released InDex software v6.1 enterprise archiving tools for sharing patient data, including patient identity matching and reconciliation features.