EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering is facing significant fallout from its recent cyberattack with an Indiana resident affected by the data breach filing a class-action lawsuit in federal court against the company, alleging the vendor did not adequately protect its software from a cyberattack.

In response to ongoing confusion about HIPAA, the Department of Health and Human Services has released a guide covering the basics of the law. 

A Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in South Dakota is notifying patients after an employee accidentally threw a box containing 1,100 patient records into a dumpster, according to an article published by Rapid City Journal.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded a $2.9 million grant to the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) to improve the sharing of quality data through the New Jersey Health Information Network. 

“We want to do more than just adjust to a suboptimum system,” said Gordon D. Schiff, MD, associate director of the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

A missing flash drive is the source of a potential data breach affecting just over 1,000 patients of OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus. 

A new bill from the House of Representatives would prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from writing the Meaningful Use Stage 3 rules until at least 2017. 

The big news in health IT this week was the announcement that Cerner won the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) contract along with partners Leidos and Accenture.