Providers plan to look to niche vendors more often than their incumbent EMR vendors to manage their future ACO needs, according to a KLAS report, “Accountable Care Timing 2013: Migration from Volume to Value Speeds Up.”

Health information exchange was one of the topics the speakers addressed during the recent eHealth Summit presented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Data from a health information exchange can more accurately identify patients with frequent hospital emergency department visits than a single site's records, according to research published in Health Affairs.

More than 800,000 Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey members are impacted by the theft of two password-protected but unencyrpted laptop computers.

Without policies governing the use of copying and pasting health information into EHRs, hospitals are vulnerable to fraud and abuse, according to an audit released by the Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General.

Sensitive information concerning 1,300 transplant patients at Houston Methodist Hospital was compromised after the theft of a hospital laptop, reports the Houston Chronicle.

Despite the rapid growth of health information exchange, there has been little focus on the staffing and skills of those staffing HIEs, according to the participants of a panel discussion at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ eHealth Summit on Dec. 6.

Susan McAndrews, deputy director for health information privacy, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), offered the latest in OCR’s privacy and security efforts and opened up about the audit program during the Health IT Policy Committee meeting on Dec. 4.