Reprinted with permission from Birmingham Medical News (May 2023). There have been several recent governmental actions which highlight the balance between securing electronic patient information and ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must take significant steps to enhance its HIPAA audit program to ensure stronger protection of electronic ...

Electronic health information exchange among hospitals and physicians has been steadily increasing in recent years, but disparities remain among rural and small hospitals as they may not be able to ...

The federal government is reviving proposed legislation that would allow digital health information to be shared safely across electronic systems.

In May 2023, the Florida Legislature amended the Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act to add a provision regarding the security and storage of patient information. It took effect on July 1, ...

The Health and Human Services Department is getting serious about taking on medical providers and organizations engaged in information blocking practices that limit access to electronic health record ...

This analysis of Medicare data examines the relationships between fragmented readmission, health information exchange, and repeat imaging in older adults with and without Alzheimer disease. Objectives ...

Epic Systems says 300,000 people’s digital health information records were accessed and sold from health records networks to law firms seeking clients.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is accelerating a systemwide rollout of its new electronic health records platform, with full deployment at all medical sites by 2031, according to the ...

Patient engagement with electronic health information through online medical records or patient portals spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, but racial and ethnic disparities persisted, according to a ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Health and Human Services is getting serious about taking on medical providers and organizations engaged in ...