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

Seventy percent of breaches involving the California healthcare industry were due to unencrypted data on lost or stolen hardware or portable media, a problem that strong encryption would fix, according to the latest data breach report from the state's attorney general. Only 19 percent of such breaches occurred in other industries.

Physicians' clinical notes improved in quality after EHR implementation, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

SOLANA BEACH, Calif., Oct. 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthFusion, maker of MediTouch EHR, the leading cloud computing software for physicians, hospitals, and medical billing services, was ranked as a Top 3 Electronic Health Record (EHR) for Clinical Quality and Support in the Medical Economics' National Provider Survey. Of those Top 3 EHRs, MediTouch is unique because it is the only one to offer full functionality on the Apple iPad. The Medical Economics National Provider Survey is a critical EHR ranking study because it asked thousands of physicians to rate their systems, on a scale of 0 to 10, in the key areas that matter most to them.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oct. 30, 2014 — MedStar Health, the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region, and Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) today announced an expanded partnership with a seven-year agreement that will streamline operations, help improve the quality of patient care and develop technologies that align with MedStar’s vision to be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health.

“Hundreds, possibly thousands” of medical records accidentally flew out of the back of a medical record disposal company’s truck in southwest Omaha, reports KETV.

Poor usability, particularly related to entering and accessing data efficiently, is a top complaint chief information officers have about EHRs, according to a survey by Frost & Sullivan.

IRVINE, Calif.--Kareo, the leading provider of cloud-based medical office software for small medical practices, today announced that it has received $15 million in mezzanine debt from Escalate Capital Partners, an institutionally backed mezzanine fund that invests in high growth companies in the technology, healthcare and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industries. In 2014, Kareo has secured a total of $47 million in funding, reinforcing the company’s unprecedented growth and further enhancing Kareo’s role as the independent physician’s trusted partner.