The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) is considering expanding the scope of its certification programs.

Long-term storage can be a CIOs worst nightmare. As datasets grow, storage gobbles more and more of the IT budget. Then, there are labor issues and costs to contend with as storage management requires human resources.

The Joint Commission has released a report offering guiding principles and actions for the hospital of the future to meet the challenges of older and sicker patients, patient safety and quality of care, economics and the work force.

Carestream Health and National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) are collaborating on product integration initiatives, designed to support the expansion of NDMAs U.S. imaging network and improve customer access to its analytics and data management services.

The University of Iowa (UI) Hospitals and Clinics has disciplined eight employees for inappropriately accessing patient health records.

VeriChips personal health record (PHR), used in conjunction with its VeriMed Health Link system, will be accessible through Microsoft HealthVault, an online healthcare information platform for consumers.

NEW YORK CITYThrough collaborations with medical institutions, including Aspetar Hospital, Qatar Foundation, Intermountain Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Montefiore Medical Center and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), GE Healthcare at an event in New York City today launched three new healthcare IT initiatives focused on high performance healthcare.

Personal health records (PHRs) could save $21 billion annually and could result in an annual net value of $19 billon based on a 10-year rollout and a usage rate of 80 percent of the U.S. population, according to a study from Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL), a nonprofit research center based at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.