June 03, 2013 -- dashboardMD, a leading provider of business intelligence reporting solutions for healthcare, is further expanding its healthcare dashboards and intelligent reporting solutions through a strategic partnership with Henry Schein MicroMD®, a provider of proven and cost-effective practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems.

Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Suffolk, Va., is notifying about 5,000 patients after discovering a significant amount of inappropriate access to patients’ EHRs from two employees inside the facility.

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) informed the public that a compromised web server caused the leak of 111 records, which included some real names, companies, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, in addition to six encrypted passwords. The files did not contain personal health or other sensitive information, according to the May 28 notice.

Santa Fe, NM, May 31, 2013 - Patient engagement leader, Seamless Medical Systems today announced it has closed $2 million in early stage funding.The financing will support Seamless Medical’s growth strategy in three main areas: integration of their patient engagement platform with leading electronic medical records companies, expanding market penetration and accelerating product innovation and future platform updates.

Breaches are back in the news this week with two more reported breaches impacting almost 3,000 patients in Miami and Sonoma, and Idaho State University (ISU) settling on a hefty $400,000 fine for its HIPAA violations.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-- The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has selected Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, as its partner in building a statewide community shared services (CSS) platform. The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority is an independent state agency that works to meet federal requirements for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) in Pennsylvania.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 30, 2013 -- HIMSS Analytics, a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), recently honored SuccessEHS client ARcare for achieving Stage 6 on the EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM). The second highest level of the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM, Stage 6 requirements include advanced uses of health information technology. These requirements include demonstrated use of electronic physician documentation, clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry, closed-loop medication administration and other advanced functionalities.

Slow and steady may be the best approach to launching sustainable and effective health information exchanges (HIEs), according to speakers at National eHealth Collaborative’s May 29 webinar.