As the healthcare industry marches headlong toward meaningful use, demand for skilled health IT consultants is high, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.

The investment and focus in health IT innovation will assist the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts (PPACA) goals and could produce large return-of-investments, according to the venture capital firm Psilos Group's 2010 Outlook on Helathcare Economics & Innovation report.

President Obama released the Administration's inaugural National Drug Control Strategy, which establishes five-year goals for reducing drug use and its consequences through a balanced policy of prevention, treatment, enforcement and international cooperation.

The Federation of State Medical Boards has announced that Michael P. Dugan, an IT expert with systems development and data management experience, will join the boards executive leadership team as CIO next month.

The New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) is in the process of notifying approximately 9,600 Medicaid Salud! Plan and Fee for Service members that a breach of protected health information (PHI) occurred in March.

Hospitals should increase their investments in IT to at least 3.0 to 3.5 percent of their total annual expenditure and procure more cost-effective systems that provide greater value, according to analysis from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

The U.S. market for high-tech patient monitoring systems, valued at $5.7 billion in 2009, is expected to experience an annual growth of around 26 percent through 2014, according to a new report from market research firm Kalorama Information.

An external support resource centered on a national technical expertise center supported by global developer and implementer groups can be effective in implementing and maintaining EHRs at multiple sites in resource-limited settings, according to a study in the May edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.