The Massachusetts e-Health Institute has launched a new grant program that seeks to bolster the exchange and use of EHR exchanges among providers.

A Massachusetts hospital has been fined $218,400 and required to implement a HIPAA privacy and security corrective action plan under a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services's Office for Civil Rights.

President Barack Obama asked the U.S. Senate to confirm Andy Slavitt as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

More than two-thirds (68 percent) of surveyed physician practices do not believe their EHRs have produced a return on investment (ROI), according to the 2015 Tech Survey sponsored by Kareo.

While there have been numerous data breaches in the past few years, it seems a research letter on the topic published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in April overstated the problem.

DataMotion has announced a comprehensive, new API program enabling scalable, fast and easy integration of its Direct Secure Messaging and SecureMail services into third party solutions and services.

An Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit found that the Arkansas Department of Human Services overpaid a total of 14 hospitals EHR incentive payments $1.2 million.  

The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has awarded onboarding grants of $675,000 to help connect hospitals and ambulatory practices to the authority’s Pennsylvania Patient & Provider Network, or P3N.