Connectyx Technologies has signed a joint marketing agreement with telehealth provider Consult A Doctor to make available MedFlash Personal Health Managers.

Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, Ark., will be the first Eclipsys client to deploy Sunrise Enterprise 5.5, Eclipsys' latest suite of integrated EHR software. The entire hospital will upgrade, and initial activation is scheduled for late April, Eclipsys said.

As of April 2, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee had identified 998,422 current and former members whose personal information was included in the theft of 57 hard drives in October 2009 at the payors Eastgate location.

Medibank has acquired McKesson Asia-Pacific to extend its healthcare management capability.

Incentives to hospitals relating to computerized physician order entry (CPOE) should include some type of demonstration that clinical decision support (CDS) is actually being employed, instead of being based solely on whether CPOE is in use, according to a study in the April edition of HealthAffairs.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $267 million in funding for 28 regional HIT assistance centers that will complete a nationwide network of 60 centers.

In response to budget strains and high Medicaid demand, many states are raising taxes with healthcare providers in the crosshairs because revenue raised from those taxes can be used to obtain a larger amount of federal matching funds, according to the Tax Foundation.

Although health IT, such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and EHRs, has the potential to improve the quality of healthcare in the U.S., achieving substantive benefits from implementing health IT may be a lengthy process, according to a study in the April edition of Health Affairs.