Following their recent election, 13 new Fellows will be inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) on Nov. 15 at ceremonies during the AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium.

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is developing a workgroup focused on Genomic Data Exchange as well as the appointment of three co-chairs to lead the group as it evaluates and outlines a common industry vision for genomic data in healthcare.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has named its 2015 Innovator of the Year.  

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has joined other calls for a delay in the Meaningful Use program. 

Market research firm Frost & Sullivan has released its list of the top 10 medical device and imaging technologies that will help manage the increasing frequency of chronic diseases around the globe.

HEALTHeLINK today announced Buffalo Ultrasound has joined Western New York’s clinical information exchange as its first mobile imaging data source. Diagnostic quality images for both radiology and echocardiography studies as well as reports from Buffalo Ultrasound’s testing centers including all mobile locations can now be securely and electronically accessed through HEALTHeLINK by more than 3,400 participating physicians.

Almost one-quarter of hospitals are finding, sending, receiving and using data electronically and those that do all four activities are nine times more likely to report they have information available at the point of care compared to those who report doing none of those activities.

A paper published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine offers recommendations for improving a national health information exchange that would improve the state of emergency medicine.