BOSTON--“I can’t tell you how many times I said no. There was no business case; it was like suicide. But I took the job anyway,” said Devore Culver, executive director and CEO of HealthInfoNet, Maine’s health information exchange, on why he took the position. He spoke during a panel session at the iHT2 Health IT Summit on May 14.

Baylor Regional Medical Center has notified 1,981 patients that their information was compromised when some of the medical center's affiliated physicians responded to phishing emails.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has approved the American National Standards Institute for a second three-year term as the ONC-Approved Accreditor for the ONC Health Information Technology Certification Program.

BOSTON—Sometimes the best advice is to trust no one, or no device. “We don’t trust devices or users, and the internal network is considered untrusted,” said David Reis, vice president of IT governance, portfolio management and security at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, discussing privacy and security during a panel session at the iHT2 Health IT Summit.

For the second time in five months, patients’ information may have been compromised in a data breach at nine Washington hospitals and dozens of others in 17 states across the U.S., according to KIRO 7 TV.

The American Medical Association has a long list of ideas to make the Meaningful Use program better for physicians and shared its recommendations in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

New Providence, NJ, May 06, 2014--athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, and Summit Health Management (“Summit”), a provider of innovative management services for Summit Medical Group (SMG) and mid- to large-sized physician practices across the U.S., today announced that Summit will leverage athenahealth’s EHR, patient portal, and population health services for use across its growing team of more than 350 health care practitioners.

After a lengthy and often colorful hearing with providers, vendors and other stakeholders on the merits and drawbacks of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s certification program, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Adoption & Certification Workgroup formally endorsed narrowing certification requirements to interoperability, clinical quality measures and privacy and security, and embarking on an end-to-end, holistic, rapid improvement process to improve certification.