There’s no such thing as a quiet week in health IT, it seems. Despite the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, there was plenty of news this week including three data breaches. 

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) calling for several important changes to the proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 that it deemed too ambitious. The organization also lent its overwhelming support for a corresponding CMS proposal that would shorten the reporting period from a full year to any continuous 90-day period.

athenahealth has welcomed three new companies to its More Disruption Please (MDP) program. 

EHR vendor Allscripts plans to lay off 250 employees across the company, according to a report from the Triangle Business Journal. 

An Indiana health system has been the victim of a sophisticated phishing attack.

A Pennsylvania hospital is notifying about 800 people treated in its emergency department that their personal information may have been compromised after being illegally disclosed by a former employee of an external billing company.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has paid out more than $30 billion in Meaningful Use incentive payments to eligible hospitals and professionals as of March.  

Some private practice providers in Minnesota now have the option to opt out of a state requirement to install and implement an EHR system by the beginning of this year.