The Privacy & Security Tiger Team presented its recommendations for patient record query and response to the HIT Policy Committee during its April 3 meeting.

Eighty-seven families received notification from Erlanger Health System, saying their child's medical records were found outside the hospital.

The William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center has alerted 7,405 veteran patients of a recent breach involving an unprotected laptop containing their personal information.

The Office of the State Attorney, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Secret Service allege a University of Florida employee acquired patient insurance information, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, and may have sold some of the information to a third party.

When patients at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Ore., were given access to key parts of their EHR such as visit notes, lab results and discharge summaries, they believed that the ability to view their records helped them in many ways.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published updated hospital clinical quality measures (CQMs) for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use (MU) program.

U.S. House Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) has introduced legislation that would exempt pathologists and their laboratories from Meaningful Use (MU) requirements.

Florida Hospital Carrollwood, an Adventist Health System facility, has received the acute care Stage 7 award from HIMSS Analytics. The award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems.