Advanced EMRs can significantly impact patient safety, reducing medication error-related events by 30 percent as well as events caused by complications by 25 percent, according to a study from Cargenie Mellon University published in the Social Science Research Network.

There has been significant collaboration on the health information exchange front over the past month with regional HIEs merging, states linking data and a new strategic relationship that aims to streamline connectivity between EHRs and HIEs.

An armed robbery led to a breach of 999 patients' data at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a $1.4 million verdict against Walgreens triggered when one of its pharmacists improperly accessed the protected medical information of a consumer who once dated her husband, reports Indystar. 

Southern Tier Healthlink and Taconic Health information and Community, which collectively span 11 counties across the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Southern Tier, are planning to merge into a single entity called HealthlinkNY.

San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2014 -- iCare, the enterprise cloud EHR provider, today announced it will be partnering with ZirMed®, the premier cloud-based enterprise business and clinical performance solution for healthcare.

The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, HIMSS and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise have formed a strategic relationship to move forward efforts to streamline the process for achieving connectivity between EHR and health information exchange systems. ICSA Labs will serve as the testing and certification body for this effort.

The former CFO of a Texas hospital has pled guilty to lying before a U.S. Magistrate Judge when attesting to successful meaningful use of an EHR, even though the organization did not meet Meaningful Use requirements.