“Walgreens at UCSF”—a new initiative of UC San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy, UCSF Medical Center and Walgreens—aims to improve medication safety, decrease healthcare costs and help patients use medications more effectively by offering pharmacist-based patient care and expanded health and wellness services to the community.

ORLANDO—Health information exchanges, as they develop, are discovering that patient matching across organizations is a challenge very different from internal matching, according to a presentation at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference.

Since the 2003 HIPAA Privacy Rule came into being, protection of patient privacy has become “table stakes.” 

Registries and EMRs provide a powerful tool tracking patient outcomes, resource use and other patterns but the systems may not be compatible. Organizations are developing strategies to improve interoperability and integration.

New guides aim to beef up the safety of health IT tools and systems.

The federal government is stepping up its efforts to find solutions to improve the ability to match patients with their data.

A new initiative aims to unite the industry to provide a standardized framework for connectivity.

Health insurer Triple-S Management faces a fine over a security breach at the insurer’s subsidiary that is larger than any imposed for HIPAA violations by the Office for Civil Rights.