The MetroHealth System of Cleveland, Ohio has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.  

CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell has issued a response to the news from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt that the Meaningful Use (MU) program will come to an end this year.

With technology in virtually every place that care is provided, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of ending Meaningful Use and moving to "a new regime culminating with [the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)]," said Andy Slavitt, CMS acting director, speaking at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

Patient access to their helath information is guaranteed by HIPAA and is a "fundamental component of a high quaity, person-centered health system," according to a post on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's blog. 

The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced a $15 million investment to become founding partner of a healthcare innovation company, called Health2047, that will conduct rapid exploration of innovative solutions to the biggest challenges facing the nation’s 1.1 million physicians and the patients they serve.

A missing flash drive is at the center of a recent data breach, potentially impacting 29,000 patients in Indiana. 

Minneapolis-based Allina Health System is notifying more than 6,100 patients that documents containing their personal information, rather than hitting the shredder, were thrown away in the trash. 

It's a lot less than other recent settlements but the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) is the latest provider to settle HIPAA enforcement action brought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.