.A survey of U.S. health IT security professionals has found that 70 percent of them believe that senior healthcare managers do not view privacy and data security as a priority.

Floridas Agency for Healthcare Administration has partnered with three companies to provide a free, online database that will allow the states 2.6 million Medicaid recipients to access personal health records (PHRs).

Health IT developer MaxMD and EMR software developer eCast haveentered into a non-exclusive partnership to develop EMR technology.

A subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the Cybersecurity Coordination and Awareness Act of 2009, which included an amendment requiring the National Institute of Standards and Technology to add health IT systems to its cybersecurity research and development.

A few years ago, there was a move in medical imaging to use off-the-shelf consumer-grade displays, especially for those clinicians in a web-based and remote reading environment. These displays were inexpensive and widely available. Lately, though, there’s been a shift away from these commodity displays.

Although the United States spends a vast amount of money on healthcare, its successes--including in the health IT area--pale in comparison with other countries, concluded the authors of a report based on a Commonwealth Fund survey.

TeleHealth Services has partnered with GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions in the hospital communications market.

Health IT company Eclipsys has released its 2009 third quarter results, which ended Sept. 30, posting a 95.6 percent loss in net income compared with the 2008 third quarter.