Medical research centers, pharmaceutical companies and health IT organizations have united to form Partnership to Advance Clinical electronic Research (PACeR), a new collaborative effort designed to improve the speed and quality of clinical research necessary to develop new medicines.

Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford in Calif., has appointed Christopher Longhurst, MD, as CMIO.

Since February, 24 security breaches affecting 500 or more individuals have been reported to the Office for Civil Rights. For the year, a total of 54 breaches have been reported, affecting about 449,008 individuals.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards development organization and accrediting body, has made available for public comment the second stage of its Health Information Exchange (HIE) Accreditation Program.

CSC has unveiled a European-wide e-prescription tool to provide services to replace the manual prescription processes with a computerized system.

The U.S. healthcare industry can eliminate $3.6 trillion in waste over the next 10 years by addressing a series of operational inefficiencies, according to a report published by Thomson Reuters.

Five California hospitals have racked up a total of $675,000 in administrative penalties and fines after the California Department of Public Health determined that the facilities failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information.

A pilot study presented this week at the 21st annual American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) scientific sessions unveiled an online, web-based tool to track appropriate ordering of heart ultrasound exams.