Finally! The FDA has issued long-awaited final guidance for mobile health applications. In a move that should surprise no one, the agency plans a risk-based approach for enforcing mobile apps.

BOSTON--With about 27 percent of healthcare providers experiencing a breach each year, privacy and security remain as critical as ever. De-identification is one piece of an enterprise privacy program that can make privacy effective, according to speakers at Strata Rx 2013.

BOSTON—The three elements of patient data security are confidentiality, integrity and availability, which all must be factored into a program that successfully secures the vulnerabilities of medical devices, according to the speakers at a session of the second annual HIMSS Privacy & Security Forum.

BOSTON—In just a few short years, cloud computing has gone from being viewed with caution and skepticism in the healthcare industry to organizations seeing it as an aid to fight information silos and achieve interoperability, according to speakers at the second annual HIMSS Privacy & Security Forum. But, be proactive to make it work effectively.

Senate Republican Conference Chair John Thune (R-S.D.) and 16 other GOP senators sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting a one-year extension of Meaningful Use Stage 2 on Sept. 25.

A Minnesota hospital has cut the average amount of blood transfused by 14 percent since 2011 using a decision support tool in its EHR.

The Beacon community program was designed to drive investment in health IT infrastructure and as the three-year grant-funded projects come to an end this fall, a wide range of achievements have been recognized.

Healthcare Synergy Inc. has signed an agreement with Great Lakes Health Information Exchange (GLHIE) forging the first partnership of a home health electronic medical record (EMR) vendor with the Michigan based health information exchange.