Randolph Medical Center, a rural critical access hospital in Roanoke, Ala., has launched a project to set standards and create a model for how non-affiliated hospitals can exchange patient data.

Some of the country's top CEOs identified the adoption of electronic health records among their top legislative priorities Thursday as they called on Congress and the president to take care of "unfinished business."

Some of the country's top CEOs identified the adoption of electronic health records among their top legislative priorities Thursday as they called on Congress and the president to take care of "unfinished business."

Merge Healthcare has launched a Managed Services initiative focused on the Merge OFF Site Disaster Recovery program, which provides HIPAA-compliant back-up of radiology images and information through the company's ViewCheck software. Read about this and other business news, contracts and new products in this week's Vendor Notebook.

Some of the country's top CEOs identified the adoption of electronic health records among their top legislative priorities Thursday as they called on Congress and the president to take care of "unfinished business."

Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer, plans to acquire UpToDate, an evidence-based electronic clinical information resource.

The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality has released a report on telehealth grant projects that reveals the improvements and challenges that telehealth grantees experience.

Eleven more communities will join the 14 designated by the government as Chartered Value Exchanges - healthcare collaborations focused on improved care and transparency and helped by the use of information technology.

Officials of Ochsner Medical Center say the hospital system remained open throughout Hurricane Gustav and fared better due to lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. Officials kept the hospital's electronic records system powered throughout Gustav's visit.

MetroSouth Medical Center - the new name for St. Francis Hospital & Health Center, which was acquired in July by MSMC Investors - will deploy a surgical information system at its hospital in Blue Island, Ill., to boost operational turnaround.

The Western North Carolina Health Information Exchange has completed phase I of its e-health initiative, with 16 participating facilities now exchanging patient data electronically.

Several healthcare IT companies, including Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, Picis and McKesson, are participating in the Annual Healthcare Conference, staged by investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners.

Forty percent of healthcare information management directors expect to owe funds for Medicare overpayments under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor program, according to an independent national survey on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Medway Country Manor Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation in Medway, Mass., is set to deploy voice-assisted care for the 123-bed facility.

Forty percent of healthcare information management directors expect to owe funds for Medicare overpayments under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor program, according to an independent national survey on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health.

The National Quality Forum has endorsed nine new national voluntary consensus standards for health information technology. The standards address electronic prescribing, electronic health record interoperability, care management, quality registries and the medical home.

The National Quality Forum has endorsed nine new national voluntary consensus standards for health information technology. The standards address electronic prescribing, electronic health record interoperability, care management, quality registries and the medical home.

Aetna has made its personal health record available to its current Medicare members who have purchased their Medicare plans individually.

Beverly Hospital's Aurora Breast MRI has installed a new dedicated breast MRI system, designed for the detection, diagnosis and management of breast disease.

A government-sponsored town hall meeting on medical identity theft in a digital age has been slated for Oct. 15 in the nation's capital.