Initiate Systems, Regenstrief Institute and RxHub Team to Prove Viability of National Health Information Network
The organizations have deployed a joint system at 16 hospitals in the Indianapolis area that permits ED staff to access complete and accurate patient medication history information within seconds. Patients entering a participating ED provide registration information, which immediately triggers a query to RxHub, via the Indiana Network for Patient Care, for a complete medication history. RxHub's enterprise master person index (EMPI), Initiate Identity Hub(TM) software, uses probabilistic algorithms to securely and accurately identify the correct patient from over 90 clinical databases, regardless of geographic boundaries, payer or primary care provider. This process returns a matched and accurate medication history in a fraction of the time of previous processes.

NHIN forum reveals many unanswered questions
At the request of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), forum participants offered hundreds of comments on the functional requirements for NHIN. Now the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics will spend the summer assessing those comments and melding them with others in a first stab at a requirements document.

The nation’s 100 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems are pairing information technology with strategic plans in their efforts to improve quality
The dominant role of financial assessments in evaluating IT plans has been replaced by a “balanced scorecard” approach, elevating nonfinancial measures—both quantitative and qualitative—as equal partners with the classic return-on-investment calculation.

Hospitals told not to ban cell phones
"The agency recommends that mobile phones are not used in critical care areas or where patients are attached to complex devices as any effect on such equipment could be detrimental to patient care." The MHRA said this would include many electronic medical devices such as dialysis machines.

5 Puerto Ricans With Alzheimer's Implanted With Microchips to Track Disease
The goal is to help the relatives of these patients feel more secure when they stay alone or under the care of other people. The microchip contains data such as the patients' medical histories, medicines they take and the contact information for their doctors and caretakers.

HITSMIT: loosely based on the extremely popular Digg technology site
Hitsmit is a healthcare technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With Hitsmit, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

Healthcare Information Technology Forum
The intent of this forum is to provide a place where users could support vendor apps themselves. Most of the major HIT vendors have forums available on the site.