In what can be seen as a major milestone in the healthcare industry's march toward increased interoperability, OpenNotes has reached 10 million patients in the U.S., all of them able to view medial records online.

In what HHS’s Office of Civil Rights called its largest settlement ever against a single entity for HIPAA violations, Downers Grove, Illinois-based Advocate Health Care has agreed to pay $5.55 million for three data breaches which exposed the health records of more than four million people.

Shift changes of doctors and nurses can cause uneasiness in some patients. A new team of physicians or nurses asking questions and evaluating your charts can cause fear of the new team's missing a step or important piece of information. 

To expand its information technology portfolio, Newton, Massachusetts-based McKesson Health Solutions has acquired IT vendor HealthQX.

Date breaches have been dominating the news in recent months. Hackers have stolen patient records then sold them on the black market.

Healthcare information exchange just got a whole lot easier for the people of Pennsylvania as the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has announced that the Keystone Health Information Exchange (KeyHIE) is now connected to the PA Patient & Provider Network (P3N).

CMS received more than 3,700 comments by the time the June 27 deadline to submit comments on CMS’s Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) new payment model passed. Various groups in the healthcare industry issued statements and suggestions.

Health information exchanges (HIEs) not only need to move data, they need to do so securely, quickly and cost efficiently. The many competing interests inherent in the American healthcare system have meant certain obstacles must be scaled before HIE implementation can become ubiquitous.