BOSTON—When Union Hospital was going to implement a new EMR, the organization took advantage of the opportunity to also implement an infrastructure with greater information security. CIO Anne Lara, EdD, RN, CNE, CPHIMS, shared the hospital's experience during a presentation at Medical Informatics World. 

BOSTON—If you apply privacy and security policies and procedures inconsistently, you will create problems, according to Lassaad Fridhi, information privacy and security officer for Commonwealth Care Alliance, speaking at Medical Informatics World.

BOSTON—Authorized EHR users can see a lot more information than they need to, said Eric Liederman, MD, MPH, director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, Calif., speaking at Medical Informatics World 2015.

Meaningful Use, the quality reporting requirements of accountable care and the more robust data that will be generated by ICD-10 coding are all driving the growth of informatics.  

Grove Medical Associates (GMA) Auburn, Mass., is a 2015 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient.  

Pediatric EHRs need special features not found in systems used for adults, according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

The leading cause of healthcare data breaches has shifted from accident to intentional, according to the Ponemon Institute's fifth annual privacy and security report. 

The Health IT Policy Committee is getting three new members.