Health organizations will undergo a strategy makeover in 2011 as they react to new rules and payment models, continuing cost pressures and new customer demands, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCooperss (PwC) Health Research Institute. But in a recent nationwide survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, PwC found that consumers don't fully understand or buy into all the changes.

Atlas Medical Software has unveiled Atlas Mobile with computerized physician order entry (CPOE) for use on the iPad to clinicians.

Essent Healthcare, a health system based in Nashville, Tenn., will equip its five hospitals with Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation Order Sets software, powered by UpToDate Decision Support.

Loyola University Health System has introduced an application that enables patients to see test results, communicate with their doctors and make appointments online using their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices via the health systems myLoyola Select service.

Agoria, the Belgian federation for the technology industry and a member of the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR), has released a position paper on telemedicine describing the benefits of telemedicine solutions for patients and the barriers to the adoption of telemedicine in Belgium.

Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers (CHWC), a three-facility system based in Bryan, Ohio, has gone live with McKessons Paragon financial and clinical system.

Decembers news ticker has been as busy as holiday season at the mall: This week saw the arrival of two additional ONC Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies, bringing to five the number of entities authorized to certify EHRs and modules that pass muster for meaningful use; six of the leading healthcare organizations in the U.S. annouced plans to collaborate to develop and disseminate best practices for chronic, expensive conditions; and a two-day ONC Update gathering in Washington, D.C., cited federal policy and standards progress, connected some of the dots in between.

CMIO.net presents a weekly update of the EHR products certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCBs). The following EHR certifications were announced recently.