The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has approved the final 2009-2010 criteria for certification of ambulatory, inpatient and emergency department EHRs, and for its newly developed stand-alone e-prescribing certification.

HealthLINC, a health information exchange (HIE) in Southern Indiana, is using Axolotl's Elysium Exchange solutions to keep the medical community informed and updated on the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.

New technology allows student doctors to practice operations and other procedures on simulators before trying them out on real patients, just as pilots practice for emergencies on aircraft simulators, according to a plenary paper session at the 2009 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting in New Orleans on May 14.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified MedHost's product, MedHost emergency department information system (EDIS) version 4.2, as a CCHIT Certified 08 emergency department EHR.

Google should "come clean" and release the specific positions it advocated during its lobbying campaign on the economic stimulus law, according to the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog.

Workflow simulations can be used as way of understanding how systems will be fit into workflow and specific physical work environments, according to a narrated electronic poster presentation at the 2009 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference this month in Chicago.

CoActiv Medical Business Solutions has entered an agreement with NY Imaging Service of Newburgh, N.Y., for the distribution of its Exam-PACS, Exam-Vault Quad-Redundant Archiving and related digital image management products throughout the New York and Northern New Jersey regions.

Converting physician's notes into electronic documentation earlier in the typical implementation cycle for an inpatient EHR would give hospitals a more complete information base for quality management, according to a white paper from Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), a Falls Church, Va.-based consulting firm.