CHICAGO--In a presentation at the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society’s 2014 Symposium on Human Factors in Healthcare, Abel Kho, MD, MS, presented an update on the successful adoption of and challenges to implementing EHRs across the different regions of the country and locally in Chicago, as well as current rates of Meaningful Use attestation.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a report that includes recommendations for developers and outpatient care centers to better integrate EHRs into clinical workflow.

Hosted document management firm eBridge Inc. has successfully completed a rigorous data management security examination by an outside assurance/compliance auditor, and has met the strict compliance requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2) process.

Late-adopting primary care physicians may succeed at meeting requirements for downloading personal health information in Meaningful Use Stage 2, but specialists may struggle with achieving required thresholds, according to a study in the American Journal of Medical Quality.

The global health information exchange market is poised to grow from $558 million in 2013 to $878 million by 2018, according to global market research firm MarketsandMarkets.

Arizona is kicking off implementation of its plan to advance health IT and health information exchange (HIE) statewide. 

Calif.-based Stanford Hospital & Clinics and two of its vendors, Multi-Specialty Collection Services and Corcino & Associates, are required to pay more than $4.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit involving a health data breach.

A new position statement from the American Health Information Management Association warns industry stakeholders about the risky practice of copy and pasting within an EHR because that "can result in redundant, erroneous and/or incomprehensible health record documentation."