The Hospice of North Idaho has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $50,000 to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. This is the first settlement involving a breach of unprotected electronic protected health information affecting fewer than 500 individuals.

The healthcare industry is in the midst of radical transformation, and health IT is at the center of the revolution—with good reason. At the heart of patient care is the critical information that comprises medical records.

A stolen laptop is the source of a data breach impacting 29,000 patients of Gibson General Hospital.

More than 1,000 Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries have been notified that their data may have been compromised as part of a computer scam.

The theft of electronic equipment from a vendor employee's car has prompted the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) to alert approximately 4,000 patients that some of their demographics and health information may have been exposed.

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) ended 2012 on a high note but not without laying down the gauntlet for 2013 and the future of Meaningful Use.

State by state, the healthcare community is taking steps forward with health information exchange (HIE).

The Walgreens drugstore chain will pay $16.6 million to settle a California case involving improper disposal of hazardous waste, including confidential patient information, in dumpsters near their stores.