According to “The National Progress Report on E-Prescribing and Interoperable Healthcare, Year 2011” released in May 2012 by Surescripts, e-prescribing has experienced a significant spike in adoption among U.S.-based physicians.

According to a May 2012 news release from the American Heart Association, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to penalize hospitals with high readmission rates related to heart failure, heart attacks, and pneumonia in order to cut costs.

According to a May 2012 press release from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is taking steps to reduce unnecessary, obsolete, or burdensome regulations on American hospitals and healthcare providers. 

According to a press release highlighting survey results from ON24 and MedData Group, physicians are looking to become more digitally involved, but have not yet taken the steps to do so.

Hospitals across the United States are losing millions of dollars due to cancelled or missed surgical appointments, research from Tulane University Medical Center  and an article from Anesthesiology News shows. 

Emergency department (ED) care in New Jersey has increased by 27 percent from 2000 to 2010, and more than $400 million a year is spent on avoidable ED visits, according to a press release from the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA).

Massachusetts legislature is slating this July for passing a proposed bill, the Health Care Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction Act of 2012. 

According to Bloomberg news and Government Health IT, the American Hospital Association (AHA) recently submitted 68 pages of comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in which it argued that the requirements proposed for the CMS Electronic Health Records Programs expected too much of hospitals.

According to a press release from the Children's Hospital Boston, “I-PASS,” a new patient safety and medical education initiative, will improve how patient care is “handed off” during hospital shift changes, reducing medical errors by up to 40 percent.

According to a press release from April 2012, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would establish a unique health plan identifier under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).