A stolen laptop is the source of a potential data breach impacting 400 patients of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

A warehouse storing patient records was vandalized leading to a potential data breach for patients of Hunt Regional Medical Partners Family Practice at Westlake in Quinlan, Texas.

There is little evidence demonstrating that health information exchanges (HIEs) help to reduce costs or improve the quality of care, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

The recent failure of an EHR system at a California hospital has led to registered nurses requesting that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to investigate the disruption that closed the organization's emergency department and created other problems that put patients at risk.

The Electronic Health Record Association has established a workgroup focused on healthcare delivery system reform.

HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services and connectivity solutions, announced today that William F. Kinsley, an enterprise architect in the Company’s research and development department, has been appointed to serve as chair of the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) Privacy and Security Workgroup.

Healthcare entities have increasingly put security and compliance policies into place but they face a range of challenges including low employee comprehension and policy violations.

Despite strong interest among medical students in pursuing clinical informatics, few are aware of the availability of training opportunities for the field, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.