Most patients believe healthcare organizations are responsible for protecting a variety of sensitive information, but 49 percent also believe that EHRs will have a negative impact on the privacy of their personal health information (PHI) and health data, according to a nationwide survey of 1,000 respondents conducted by CDW Healthcare.

Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School in Boston have launched the SMArt (Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies) platform architecture and a $5,000 competition challenging developers to create web applications for patients, physicians or for public health.

Breathe Technologies has received FDA clearance for use of its BT-V2S ventilator in the home setting. The portable device provides ventilation assistance to aid select adult patients who suffer from respiratory insufficiency.

As part of the rollout of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's (ONC) Direct Project, Greenway Medical's PrimeSuite 2011 EHR, practice management and interoperability suite has been selected to facilitate point-to-point routing of patient data.

Lawson Software demonstrated its ability to enable interoperability among EHRs during the Interoperability Showcase at the HIMSS 2011 Conference & Exhibition, Feb. 21 to Feb. 24 in Orlando, Fla.

The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has announced cooperative grant awards for the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Pediatric Quality Measurement Program Centers of Excellence.

Vermont's statewide health information exchange operator has selected Medicity's suite of HIE tools to connect providers and expand the services available through the HIE.

The ONCs Health IT Policy Committee will have its hands full sorting through the comments on the proposed Stage 2 criteria for meaningful use. A slew of comments from a spectrum of stakeholders were announced in the final days before the Feb. 25 deadline for comments. In the CMIO.net sampling this week, there were a variety of viewpoints and not much consensus once we got past the general accolades for the time and effort that federal agencies have spent in developing the proposals.