Breathe Technologies has received FDA clearance for use of its BT-V2S ventilator in the home setting. The portable device provides ventilation assistance to aid select adult patients who suffer from respiratory insufficiency.

As part of the rollout of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's (ONC) Direct Project, Greenway Medical's PrimeSuite 2011 EHR, practice management and interoperability suite has been selected to facilitate point-to-point routing of patient data.

Lawson Software demonstrated its ability to enable interoperability among EHRs during the Interoperability Showcase at the HIMSS 2011 Conference & Exhibition, Feb. 21 to Feb. 24 in Orlando, Fla.

The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has announced cooperative grant awards for the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Pediatric Quality Measurement Program Centers of Excellence.

Vermont's statewide health information exchange operator has selected Medicity's suite of HIE tools to connect providers and expand the services available through the HIE.

The ONCs Health IT Policy Committee will have its hands full sorting through the comments on the proposed Stage 2 criteria for meaningful use. A slew of comments from a spectrum of stakeholders were announced in the final days before the Feb. 25 deadline for comments. In the CMIO.net sampling this week, there were a variety of viewpoints and not much consensus once we got past the general accolades for the time and effort that federal agencies have spent in developing the proposals.

A Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Research Institute database containing personal information on more than 3,600 patients was found to have a security vulnerability that potentially left data in one section of the database exposed to advanced Internet searches, CAMC reported. The vulnerability was discovered and resolved last month.

CMIO.net presents a weekly update of the EHR products certified by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCBs). The following EHR certifications were announced recently: