An employee at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System accidentally donated compact discs containing protected patient data for children’s art projects, reports Richmond Times-Dispatch.

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--Capella Healthcare is on its way to creating easy-to-access longitudinal patient records. By acquiring and aggregating clinical information from across the various settings of care that serve patients, Capella Healthcare is empowering clinicians and patients by providing the right information at the right time. 

The latest--and low--numbers of successful Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 attestations, and therefore the number of providers now facing reimbursement penalties, have set up a firestorm of criticism from various professional associations.

In a twist on the traditional healthcare data breach, an anonymous party accessed the protected health information of a critical access hospital in southern Illinois and threatened to release more data unless a "substantial" ransom payment was made. 

Another effort to shorten the EHR reporting period for Meaningful Use in 2015 came in the form of a letter from 30 members of Congress—28 Republicans and two Democrats—to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell.

Greenway Health™ announced today its corporate sponsorship of PGA TOUR professional Blayne Barber, one of golf’s rising stars. Beginning with the Sony Open Jan. 15-18 at the Waialae Golf Course in Honolulu, the Greenway Health logo will be featured on shirts worn by Barber at each event in which he plays.     

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, a non-regulatory state agency designed to improve safety in healthcare, has processed 2.25 million reports as part of its mandatory surveillance system. These reports have yielded insight into how advanced EMRs can improve safety in healthcare delivery, said Bill Marella, MBA, program director at PSA.

AUSTIN, Texas and TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions and Kansas Health Information Network Inc. (KHIN), a health information exchange organization (HIO), today announced that e-MDs' electronic health records (EHR) technology is the first to exchange provider data directly with  the newly-created Kansas infectious disease registry.