Tampa, Florida – Sept. 17, 2013 – Vitera Healthcare Solutions, the nation’s premier provider of ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and services, announced today that it has earned the 2013 Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan for providing outstanding customer value and helping physicians’ practices thrive in a complex, changing healthcare environment.

Forty-one percent of U.S. consumers are willing to switch physicians to gain online access to their own EMRs, according to a survey conducted by Accenture.

Model Notices of Privacy Practices are available for healthcare providers and health plans to use to communicate with their patients and plan members.

The Delaware regional extension center is the first to help 1,000 primary care physicians achieve Meaningful Use Stage 1 of their EHR systems.

A new agreement between four upstate New York Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) allows for the secure exchange of electronic medical records amongst Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany healthcare professionals. In total, the agreement allows providers to securely share 5.4 million patient health records among 110 hospitals in a 44-county region.

Consumers are increasingly at risk of medical identity theft and could face serious medical and financial consequences, according to a recent Ponemon Institute survey.

SOMERSET, NJ — September 12, 2013 — Wellsoft Corporation announced today that Wellsoft’s Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) v.11 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an EHR Module on August 21, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 670 northern California patients of a HIPAA privacy breach after an emailed attachment containing the protected health information of patients was sent to a recipient outside the Kaiser network.