Major breaches most often occur within organizations that lack comprehensive risk analyses, said Jocelyn Samuels, the new director of the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking an Arkansas hospital to return $900,000 in Meaningful Use Stage 1 incentive pay due to a failure to meet all of the program measures.

A Florida hospital is facing its third data breach in two years.

Regional Extension Centers have helped more than 100,000 providers demonstrate Stage 1 Meaningful Use, according to a Health IT Buzz blog post from National Health IT Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MS and ONC Director of the Office of Programs & Engagement, Kimberly Lynch, MPH.

The issues facing hospital and health system leaders 25 years ago are not far off from what they’re reporting today, according to a recent HIMSS’ report documenting findings from 25 years of their annual leadership survey.

Health information governance is one of five key components of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s 10-year interoperability vision, and the agency currently is immersed in establishing “rules of the road” to further exchange, said Jodi Daniel, director of ONC's office of policy planning, speaking during a Sept. 18 webinar corresponding with National Health IT Week.

Sharing data with patients shouldn’t be an afterthought, according to panelists who shared their efforts to empower patients with their health data at the fourth annual Consumer Health IT Summit on Sept. 15 in Washington, D.C.

Few consumers had online access to their medical records in 2013 but half of those who did, accessed their records at least once, according to an Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT data brief.