The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards development organization and accrediting body, has made available for public comment the second stage of its Health Information Exchange (HIE) Accreditation Program.

CSC has unveiled a European-wide e-prescription tool to provide services to replace the manual prescription processes with a computerized system.

The U.S. healthcare industry can eliminate $3.6 trillion in waste over the next 10 years by addressing a series of operational inefficiencies, according to a report published by Thomson Reuters.

Five California hospitals have racked up a total of $675,000 in administrative penalties and fines after the California Department of Public Health determined that the facilities failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information.

A pilot study presented this week at the 21st annual American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) scientific sessions unveiled an online, web-based tool to track appropriate ordering of heart ultrasound exams.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has organized a workgroup (subcommittee), called the Privacy & Security Tiger Team, under the HIT Policy Committee to move forward on various privacy and security issues.

Despite the innovations and the possibilities within healthcare reform, there is a culture gap within health IT today between consumers and the U.S. government, said Secretary Aneesh Chopra, U.S. chief technology officer (CTO) and associate director for technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy, during his keynote address at the Health Information and Management Systems Societys (HIMSS) annual Virtual Conference and Expo this week.

The Commonwealth of Virginia responded this week to the federal governments attempt to dismiss the states lawsuit against the new federal healthcare law in an attempt to move the case of Commonwealth of Virginia v. Kathleen Sebelius forward. Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli now awaits the July 1 court date that will determine whether his case has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the healthcare reform bill under the Commerce Clause.