Tenet Healthcare, which operates 49 hospitals, has promoted Paul T. Browne to chief information officer.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has posted on its website several successful case studies showing how health IT allows patients, familiar and physician to access health information to improve patient care.

Naomi A. Fried, PhD, chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, leads the organization’s Innovation Acceleration Program.

The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to improving patient safety through evidence-based best practices, honored Johns Hopkins Hospital with its Seventh Annual Health Devices Achievement Award.

HL7 professionals have strong experience but low tenure and about one-third of healthcare organizations have no staff retention policy, according to the results of The 2012 HL7 Interface Technology Survey.

Wolters Kluwer Health, a developer of information and business intelligence systems, has entered into an agreement to acquire Health Language, a medical terminology management company.

A single cardiology vendor can’t provide the integration across a platform that providers desire, with some vendors offering better modules than functionality and vice versa. However, some vendors do stand above the rest, according to an October performance report published by market researcher KLAS.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has selected new tools that help patients better manage and access information in their EHRs as challenge winners. The winners were named during the Health 2.0 Sixth Annual Fall Conference in San Francisco, Oct. 12.