The proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 was issued last Friday and a lot of people have had a lot to say about it.

More than 150,000 patients of Advantage Dental have been notified about a potential breach of personal patient protected health information after its intrusion detection system discovered that an internal database was illegally accessed.

Calling the Meaningful Use Stage 3 proposed rule “disappointing overall,” Richard Schreiber, CMIO of Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, Penn., said what sounds like simplification might just be “restructuring of the outline form to make it look simpler.”

ATHENS, Ohio, March 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- An Ohio entrepreneur is introducing a product designed to give people control over their own medical records.  As CEO for a start-up company known as SEED Protocol LLC, Tom Reid is launching a new business that will empower individuals to manage, review, and protect their healthcare files, delivering a quantum leap over today's insecure methods.

Nearly 75 percent of American adults surveyed believe it is very important that their critical health information should be easily shared between physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers and most (87 percent) are against any associated fees, according to a survey released by the Society of Participatory Medicine and conducted by ORC International.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 as well as a proposed rule for 2015 EHR Certification. Response has been fast and furious.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CieloStar, a leading nationwide healthcare benefit distribution, private health exchange and payment technology company, announced today that it has partnered with Worksite Benefit Services to extend the private healthcare exchange concept.

Commentary on the proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 keeps coming. CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, John Halamka, MD, and Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, penned their thoughts on the good, the bad and the ugly of the rule, which was published on Halamka's blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO.