Egged on by initiatives unleashed by the Chinese government and regulatory authorities, the healthcare IT market in China has witnessed strong growth, according to a report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded $5.75 million in federal matching funds across six states and the District of Columbia for state planning activities to implement the EHR incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Federal District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that the Commonwealth of Virginia has standing to bring its lawsuit seeking to invalidate the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and denied the federal governments motion to dismiss the commonwealths suit.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made available $51 million in grants to help states begin work to establish health insurance exchanges.

Siemens AG today reported a EUR118 million ($153.7 million U.S.) increase in net income, with an overall revenue gain of 4 percent, partly driven by strong healthcare unit revenue, which increased 10 percent year-over-year with contributions from all divisions in the fiscal 2010 third quarter, compared with the previous years third quarter.

Integrated Document Solutions (IDS) has released Reforma 3.0 bar-coded forms management system.

Since the last HIT Policy & Standards Committee Enrollment Workgroup update, three workgroup meetings have been held and four tiger teams have been activated around privacy and security and in keeping with the think-big-but-start-small principle, said Aneesh Chopra, chair and chief technology officer of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

The Clinical Quality Workgroup of the Health IT Standards Committee under the Department of Health and Human Services is now in a hibernation period," said Janet Corrigan, MD, chair and president of the National Quality Forum, speaking at the HIT Standards Committee's July meeting.