Its been a year since CMIO put a stake in the ground, conducting the first-ever CMIO Compensation Survey. Some 225 chief medical information/informatics officers nationwide offered their insight, while establishing a baseline of compensation data upon which to build subsequent surveys.

Meaningful use is out of the gate and influencing health IT decisions across the board. Learning from peers and knowing what options are out there is critical. These are likely two reasons why, as of mid-January, registration for HIMSS11 was about 30 percent ahead of last year.

Under the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Medicaid eligibility threshold for nonelderly adults will rise to 133 percent of the federal poverty level (about $30,000 for a family of four) in 2014, according to a perspective published online Jan. 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled a proposed 2011-2012 Executive Budget that, if passed as is, would cut Medicaid spending in the state by $2.85 billion for 2011-12.

Older Americans who were treated in Michigan intensive care units (ICUs) saw larger decreases in their likelihood of dying while hospitalized than similar ICU patients in other Midwestern hospitals, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published in the British Medical Journal.

New Mexico Software has released its PACS teleradiology system for Google Android smartphones and the Samsung Galaxy Tablet. The application, which can be downloaded free on the Android Marketplace, requires an Android operating system higher than 2.2.

Healthcare workplace management technology developer API Healthcare has released API Healthcare Synergy, a single-platform workforce management tool.

Physicians Hospital System, a healthcare facility network serving Indiana, will be joining the Healthcare of Todays network.