The Health IT Policy Committee this week gave some significant signs of things to come with a restructuring of work groups, endorsing best practices regarding Meaningful Use Stage 2 and launching a new accountable care work group.

The Office of Inspector General is no longer supporting a 2011 advisory opinion that favored a data exchange arrangement allowing EHR data to be shared for the purpose of patient referral.

Springfield, MO, April 09, 2014--TrustHCS and Greenway Health have solidified a partnership to assist users of the Greenway PrimeSUITE integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution with ICD-10 preparation and transition. ICD-10 preparation, education, documentation improvement and coding compliance services from TrustHCS are the main focus of the partnership.

A new Stage 2 Meaningful Use Attestation Calculator is available to help providers determine whether they will successfully meet Stage 2 requirements.

About 85 percent of Medicare early adopters have successfully attested to Meaningful Use for 2011, 2012 and 2013, reported Elisabeth Myers, policy and outreach lead at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of eHealth Standards and Services during the Health IT Policy Committee on April 8.

The inclusion of social and behavioral health domains in EHRs is vital to providing crucial information to providers treating individual patients, to health systems concerned about the health of populations and to researchers involved in determining the effectiveness of treatment, according to a study from the Institute of Medicine.

Kaiser Permanente has notified approximately 5,100 members of a privacy incident that compromised one server at its Northern California Division of Research.

About 12,000 patients potentially had their personal health information breached due to a phishing scam.