The challenges in the adoption and use of EHRs led authors to pen a list of 10 rights and responsibilities of EHR users that could serve as the foundation on which to build an approach to healthcare in the electronic age. The article was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

MRI should not replace clinical observation in the treatment of patients with hip pain, as 73 percent of healthy volunteers had abnormal findings on MRI, according to a study presented Feb. 11 at American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco.

Infusion of cardiosphere-derived stem cells into patients who had had heart attacks can help regenerate healthy heart muscle, according to a prospective, randomized trial published Feb. 13 in The Lancet.

Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Ala., has named John Christopher Davis, MD, as the organizations first CMIO. In this position, Davis will provide leadership in the continuing development and advancement of clinical systems and technology for the systems four hospitals.

The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) will begin using AT&T Healthcare Community Online, a cloud-based data sharing platform, to accelerate data integration processes and make clinical data available in real-time.

The mobile device craze is impacting healthcare just as much as the general public. And keeping up with the latest technology is a challenge for everyone. HIMSS12 offers a wide range of sessions on all the issues related to mobile and telehealth, including access, applications and security.

Being a leading edge kind of person, you've gone out & bought a tablet. Now what? You bring your tablet into the hospital to talk to patients, only to find that the charts have been updated. Oops. That's when you realize you need help managing your newfound Tablet Anger. 

This session will explore the fast moving mobile health space. It will be accentuated by real-world examples that punctuate the idea that the phones and devices are only part of the successful equation of people, process, technology and organization that define the mHealth ecosystem.