The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched its Medicare Personal Health Records (PHR) Choice Pilot in Arizona and Utah.

Eclipsys has formed an academic partnership with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) to provide student nurses with healthcare IT experience.

The National eHealth Collaborative, formerly AHIC Successor, was officially launched Jan. 8 in Washington, D.C., and is a public-private partnership for the creation of a secure and interoperable nationwide health information network (NHIN) to improve the quality and accessibility of healthcare.

ActiveHealth Management has released portability options for members using its personal health record (PHR), ActivePHR.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has notified more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that they will receive the full payment update for calendar year 2009 as part of the new Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program.

Axolotl, a provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions, has integrated M*Modals Speech Understanding engine into its Elysium medical transcription workflow solution to populate its own EMR Lite, third party health information systems (HIS) and EMR systems.

More than 1,000 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have had their personal information stolen by a former employee in the hospital's billing department, who allegedly used the identities to steal from insurance companies.

As EMR adoption gains in U.S. healthcare, internet-based personal health records (PHRs) will influence the healthcare industry, according to a new report from healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.