Integrating non-invasive, interactive clinical decision support (CDS) alerts into the EHRs of HIV patients correlated with improved health outcomes, according to research published Dec. 4 by the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has resolved 68,896 HIPAA complaints out of 75,474 filed, or 91 percent of all complaints, since HIPAA went into effect in April 2003. 

Data breaches are back in the news after a few weeks with no reported incidents. More than 100,000 clients of a home monitoring firm were impacted when a company laptop wasstolen from an employee’s car. In Arkansas, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is notifying approximately 1,500 patients of a medical records breach involving a resident physician who was terminated in 2010.

Kansas is the first state in the U.S. to connect to the national disease outbreak surveillance system via a digital health information exchange.

A data breach, resulting from the theft of a laptop from the locked vehicle of a home monitoring company employee, has resulted in the notification of 116,000 potentially impacted individuals.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is notifying approximately 1,500 patients of a medical records breach involving a resident physician who was terminated in 2010.

Recent surveys about health information exchange (HIE) indicate some contradictory thoughts. For example, satisfaction with HIE vendors is lagging as they struggle to produce the level of interoperability that providers want, according to a KLAS report.

Patients desire granular privacy control over their electronic health information, according to research published online Nov. 26 by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.