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This week health care organizations were startled and not a little concerned to learn of the ONC's unprecedented action with regards to a California health software company. The agency is decertifying electronic health records systems which initially met ONC requirements for certification. Via Modern...

The software lobby’s pitch to the health care industry, and to Congress, was that health care would receive not only the $19 billion to be provided by the government for health care digitization, but that the shift to electronic records would result in huge health care savings. Four years after...

Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, believes most HIT vendors operate in good faith. At a recent meeting, however, Mostashari stated that he will be testing organized peer pressure as a means of bringing more ethically problematic vendors into line, in order to...

The Annals of Family Medicine reports that although use of electronic health records has not increased significantly in all regions, it has risen dramatically nationwide in the last few years. Via Modern Healthcare : The number of family physicians who have adopted electronic health records has more...

HHS has finally announced a long-awaited final rule that implements a number of provisions of the HITECH Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the "Stimulus Bill," to strengthen the privacy and security protections for health information...

In a sign that HHS is serious about small data breaches, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and The Hospice of North Idaho reached a settlement agreement to resolve allegations of a 2010 breach involving 441 patient records. OCR Director Leon Rodriguez reminded the industry that every covered entity, regardless...

The HHS Inspector General this week reported the results of its recent investigation to “verify the accuracy of professionals' and hospitals' self-reported meaningful-use information, as well as eligibility and payment amounts.” The investigation reviewed payments issued from May...

Hurricane Sandy this week tested the East Coast health care systems’ electronic infrastructure. Emergency preparedness plans were implemented fairly successfully for most health care facilities, allowing them to continue to operate adequately. Others, however, were negatively impacted, including...