Members of an identify theft criminal operation accessed the personal information of nearly 8,000 patients at Miami-based Jessie Trice Community Health Center, reports SC Magazine.

Staffing challenges abound at health information exchanges (HIE), but salaries continue to edge upwards, according to a joint online survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Meaningful Use numbers announced during this week's Health IT Policy Committee meeting stirred the pot when it comes to calls for more flexibility and loosening up the timeframe for the incentive program.

During the Nov. 4 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, national coordinator for health IT, thanked everyone for their support and reiterated her continued leadership at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT after being named acting assistant secretary for health.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General plans to significantly beef up its scrutiny of EHRs, according to its 2015 work plan.

As EHR adoption increases and health information exchange expands, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT wants to track public perceptions of privacy and security of health data.

During the Nov. 4 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, Beth Meyers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revealed that the latest numbers indicate fewer than 17 percent of U.S. hospitals have successfully attested to Meaningful Use Stage 2.

Many doctors using EHRs are working longer days than ever while wondering what happened to the promised time savings