The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has dismissed LabMD’s challenge to the current Federal Trade Commission enforcement action regarding an alleged healthcare privacy breach, reports The National Law Review.

HIMSS Analytics has honored 350 Kaiser Permanente ambulatory clinics with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award, the highest level on the EMR Adoption Model.

The protests to the pace and structure of Meaningful Use are getting louder and louder. As has been predicted in the past, if the complaints grow loud enough the government will have to adjust to accommodate.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a standards development organization and accrediting body, has added new criteria to its accreditation programs.

If there is strength in numbers, a coalition of 35 medical societies led by the American Medical Association hopes to see some changes in the Meaningful Use (MU) incentive program.

Mayo Clinic plans to replace its three existing EHR systems with a single, integrated EHR and revenue cycle management system from Epic.

Serious privacy concerns loom over the federal health insurance exchange, as applicants may unwittingly expose certain information to third-party data companies, reports ABC News.

"Ease the administrative burden physicians face and build on goals set a decade ago," wrote the American Association of Family Physicians in a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT responding to the agency's Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which was released in December.