CLEVELAND, July 15, 2013 -- Healthcare organizations from around the world will meet at Hyland Software on July 16 and 17 for the seventh annual OnBase/Epic User Forum. Designed to help healthcare providers address evolving organizational challenges, attendees will learn about the product road map, industry trends and best practices. OnBase users and experts from Hyland Software and Epic will share their experience integrating the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) solution with the Epic electronic medical record (EMR). Integrating Registration, Revenue Cycle Management and EMR solutions enables healthcare providers to connect information across all departments within the organization, centralizing patient information and improving departmental efficiencies.

The Children’s Care Alliance (CCA) is creating a health information exchange (HIE)—branded as Virtual Health Village—for underserved children in the Lehigh Valley area of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Following a high-profile birth at the facility, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has fired five workers and a student research assistant over privacy breaches involving patient medical records.

The University of Texas at Austin and Jericho Systems Corp. are joining forces to develop a national pilot program designed to explore advanced patient control over shared EMRs.

As part of an effort to help make sure their residents’ health information is available after a hurricane or other widespread disaster, four Gulf states have partnered with six states in the East and Midwest to help patients and providers access critical health information when they are unable to visit their regular doctors or hospitals.

Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth is notifying some 277,000 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after hospital microfilms, which were supposed to be destroyed, were found in various public locations. This marks the biggest HIPAA privacy breach of 2013, if not the largest to date.

HIPAA violations will cost insurer WellPoint $1.7 million in fines to the federal government. The organization was charged with HIPAA violations after it left the names, Social Security numbers and personal health information of more than 600,000 individuals accessible over the internet, according to a release from the Department of Health and Human Services.

WICHITA, Kan., July 12, 2013 -- Integrated Solutions Group, Inc. (ISG), a Hutchinson-based corporation and parent company of Professional Data Services, Inc., (PDS) has acquired Data Strategies, Inc. (DSI) out of Poway, Calif. The acquisition will significantly grow the company's foothold in the electronic health records (EHR) industry and position it as a national player within the ambulatory medical practice community.