A data breach has affected 21,000 Blue Shield of California members.

The FDA has issued a draft guidance detailing the steps medical device manufacturers should take to continually address cybersecurity risks to keep patients safe and better protect the public health.

A letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell from 31 healthcare organizations addresses concerns about Meaningful Use (MU) and the current state of EHRs.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should “completely reconceptualize” the Meaningful Use program, say Peter Basch, MD, FACP, medical director for ambulatory EHR and health IT policy for MedStar Health, and Thomson Kuhn, senior systems architect at the American College of Physicians, writing on the Health Affairs blog.

The electronic exchange of health information among non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S. and outside providers has increased significantly across all data types from 2008 to 2014.

Pharmacists need more information to do their jobs, such as labs, indication for use of medications and allergy information, said Shelly Spiro, BSPharm, FASCP, executive director of the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative, in an article published by Pharmacy Today.

HIMSS Analytics has launched Logic, a global healthcare IT market intelligence tool.

An anonymous tip led to the discovery of thousands of patient and employer records in a vacant building that used to house a homeless shelter, according to 7 Action News in Highland Park, Mich.