The Office of Civil Rights soon will have an opening in its top spot.

A General Accounting Office report takes several federal agencies to task, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, for inconsistently implementing policies and procedures when responding to a data breach involving personally identifiable information.

The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services and contractors are not doing enough to address vulnerabilities within EHR systems that make them susceptible to fraud, according to the Office of the Inspector General.

A proposed model released by the Institute of Medicine seeks to help hospitals and health systems assess the ROI on EHR adoption.

HIMSS Analytics has recognized Cincinnati Children’s Hospital with its Stage 7 Award, and has awarded 14 of its clinics with Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards.

Despite the gains in integrating IT into healthcare, there is room for improvement. That's the message of Jacob Reider, MD, acting national coordinator of health IT, in a post on the Health IT Buzz blog.

FDA plans to use EHRs to find risk factors associated with adverse events to determine which drugs might require targeted warnings about their appropriate use.

Hundreds of patients at Riverside Health System in Newport News, Va., will receive free credit monitoring services after a random audit determined that an employee had inappropriately accessed EMR data.