The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has released A Blueprint for Telerehabilitation Guidelines, which discusses key administrative, clinical, technical and ethical principles that should be considered in the course of providing telerehabilitation services to inform and assist practitioners in providing services based on client needs, current empirical evidence and available technologies.

Enterprise software developer Autonomy has made available the Autonomy Meaning Based Healthcare (MBH) platform; a set of clinical diagnosis and information governance technologies designed to help healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) provide care.

The board of directors at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in California has appointed Amir Dan Rubin as its president and CEO, who will succeed Martha Marsh, the facility's former CEO, who retired in September.

Sixty percent of doctors do not believe its acceptable to cover up or avoid revealing a mistake if that mistake would not cause harm to the patient, according to a report from WebMD Health on doctors attitudes on medical ethical issues.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released a new computerized physician order entry (CPOE) wiki to bring data, documents and valuable guidelines on meeting and exceeding meaningful use into one location.

Data breaches of patient information cost healthcare organizations in the U.S. nearly $6 billion annually, and many breaches go undetected, according to a released report from privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted a new policy on professionalism when using social media. The policy, announced during the AMA's semi-annual policymaking meeting in San Diego, aims to help physicians maintain a positive online presence and preserve the integrity of the patient-physician relationship.

Medical imaging software company ContextVision has entered into a partnership with Neuosoft Medical Systems of Shenyang, China, for medical imaging product collaboration.