> Westwood, Mass.-based EMR vendor Meditech is in negotiations to lease 135 acres of land at a business park in Freetown, Mass., for a planned 180,000-square-foot office building that will house some 800 new employees starting in 2013. Article
> The HHS Office of Inspector General is warning against EMR users letting their Medicare patients' records appear "cloned." FiercePracticeManagement
> Three health systems in Camden, N.J., have started building a citywide EHR via health information exchange. Article
> The Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation, Hollywood, Fla., is offering $5,000 in prize money for innovative ideas for sharing EHR data. Website
> Nuance Communications and IBM are teaming up to promote advanced natural language processing as a key component of EMR workflows. Press release
And Finally... As if politics wasn't enough of a soap opera already. Article