At long last, the winning vendors for the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) procurement effort have been named and they are Cerner, Leidos and Accenture. The group surprisingly beat out bids headed up by Allscripts and Epic.  

A criminal fraud scheme is the reason 5,300 current and past members of New York-based payer Healthfirst are being notified of a data breach. 

A new, federally funded guide, the first in a planned series, is available to help healthcare providers and other organizations seeking to beef up cybersecurity.

Hardly a week goes by without another data breach affecting healthcare, but congressional lawmakers haven't advanced a data breach notification bill.

Use of health information exchange has had a significant effect on the duplication of tests, according to researchers at the Brookings Institution in cooperation with HEALTHeLINK.

To the great relief of many who have called for a pause on the federal Meaningful Use program, the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee announced today it will ask the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to delay Stage 3.  

Pulse Systems, Inc., an industry-leading provider of Electronic Health Record (EHR), Practice Management, e-prescribing, Billing and Collections, and other Revenue Cycle Management solutions, recently updated its Complete EHR as part of its comprehensive plan to prepare for the transition to ICD-10 on Oct. 1, 2015.

While most said chief information security officers (CISOs) offer "valuable guidance," only 38 percent of CEOs and other C-suite leaders believe they should be in charge of security strategy and purchasing decisions, according to a ThreatTrack Security report.