Approximately 80 percent of U.S. hospitals are still not in compliance with federal Red Flags Rules that require businesses and organizations to create identity theft prevention programs, according to a survey of healthcare executives released by Identity Force.

EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, saw revenues and net income slip in the first quarter of 2009, and has announced plans to take cost reduction actions to reduce its information infrastructure costs by almost $450 million.

President Barack Obama has named Virginia's Technology Secretary Aneesh P. Chopra to be the nation's first chief technology officer (CTO).

Penny Imaging Exchange (PIE) has acquired new technology from Germany to process the conversion of microfiche records to digital form--the DRS Digitizer.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Friday published a guidance targeting technologies and methodologies to secure health information by rendering health data unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The Rhode Island Department of Health has released two reports that show how many individual providers use health IT on a regular basis. Rhode Island is the first state in the country to measure this, and nearly 40 percent of its physicians report using electronic clinical information systems to help care for their patients.

EMC has unveiled a new approach to data storage for virtual data centers with EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture.

The state of New York will provide $60 million for projects that promote the use of health IT in patient-centered medical homes, which include services by physician practices and clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, long-term care providers, physical therapists and other providers.