Rhode Island will build a statewide health information exchange (HIE) as a result of Gov. Don Carcieri Monday signing into law the Rhode Island Health Information Act of 2008.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified 10 EHR products for office-based physicians under new CCHIT-certified 2008 criteria.

Royal Philips Electronics has sold its speech recognition business, Philips Speech Recognition Systems, to Nuance Communications for approximately 65 million ($95 million U.S.) in cash.

The leaders of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have requested that Reps. Pete Stark, D-Calif., and Dave Camp, R-Mich., implement some modifications to their newly introduced health IT legislation.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published three new health IT-related funding opportunity announcements and a special emphasis notice, intended for improvements in ambulatory settings and in transitions of care.

The National Biodefense Science Board is in favor of supporting the integration of an EMR system for use in federal disaster response efforts with future patient-tracking and medical resource availability systems, as well as its interoperability with other EMR systems.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has found that momentum is building behind incentives for physicians to adopt EHRs in their medical practices.

Allscripts has integrated its ePrescribe electronic prescription software with Google Health.