The Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy and Security Workgroup has held hearings over that last several months to narrow its focus on potential harmful uses said co-chair Stanley Crosley during the June 30 meeting.

Another health system is notifying patients after an employee inappropriately accessed protected health information.  

A blog post from a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation suggests we learn from the past to save the Meaningful Use program. 

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is taking on regulations preventing a national patient identifier calling calls the lack of a consistent patient identity matching strategy “the most significant challenge inhibiting the safe and secure electronic exchange of health information. As our healthcare system begins to realize the innately transformational capabilities of health IT, moving toward nationwide health information exchange, this essential core functionality—consistency in patient identity matching—must be addressed.”

The 2015 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey found that 87 percent of respondents name cybersecurity as an increasing business priority over the past year. 

A Maryland health system is informing more than 1,000 patients that their data may have been stolen. 

It's time for consumers to take charge of their health and their health information, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal that offers advice for patients on how to get their information and what to do with it. 

Hospitals just beginning the Meaningful Use (MU) attestation process in 2015 can attest anytime between now and August 14. Previously, hospitals participating for the first time were required to wait until Jan. 1, 2016, to attest due to system changes.