ORLANDO—HIEs are not one size fits all and can have many faces depending on the use case, according to a presentation at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference.

ORLANDO--More than seven million patient medical records were breached in 2013, which is a 138 percent increase over 2012, according to Brian Evans, principal consultant at Tom Walsh Consulting, who spoke during a session on breach incident response at the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference.

Dozens of industry associations have united to lay out a case for more time and flexibility in the Meaningful Use (MU) program to ensure its success.

ORLANDO--The time demands of federal mandates such as ICD-10 and Meaningful Use “drive my innovation push,” said Lyle Berkowitz, MD, associate CMIO of Northwestern Medicine, delivering the keynote address at the Innovation Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual meeting.

ORLANDO--“Interoperability is always on our mind but never completely within our grasp,” said James R. Younkin, director of IT for Geisinger Health System at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's pre-conference Interoperability Symposium.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has issued proposals for the 2015 edition of EHR certification criteria.

Networks and internet-connected devices of organizations in virtually every healthcare category, including hospitals, insurance carriers and pharmaceutical companies, have been and continue to be compromised by successful cyberattacks, according to an analysis of malicious traffic by The SANS Institute.

The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing, a Burbank, Calif.-based nonprofit, is launching a year-long project to leverage health IT to facilitate access to care for underserved and low-income older adults at affordable housing communities, community health clinics and other institutions in a Los Angeles neighborhood.