The Massachusetts Health Information Exchange (HIE) went live Oct. 16, when Gov. Deval Patrick clicked send to transmit the information in his EHR from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to Baystate Health in Springfield.

Richard J. Poulton will join Allscripts as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 29.

A mix-up by a janitorial services firm is the source of a data breach at a Springfield, Mo., radiology group practice. Nineteen-member Litton and Giddings Radiological Associates has notified about 13,000 patients who had billing activity between July 23 and Aug. 2, 2012.

Physicians using EHRs performed better than their paper-based peers on quality of care for four screening measures for diabetes, breast cancer, chlamydia and colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the current issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

CHICAGO—With more than 30 Health Level 7 affiliates, it’s an international effort to update healthcare standards, said R. Lenel James, MBA, senior project director at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and member of Health Level 7’s Electronic and Personal Health Record Work Groups, speaking at the 84th American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Conference & Exhibition.

Growing concerns about medical identity theft led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to publish a report, CMS Response to Breaches and Medical Identity Theft, about the current rate of data breaches in healthcare.

The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton is the first standalone children’s hospital in Ohio to join CliniSync, Ohio’s statewide health information exchange.

Linking to a breast screening program website within electronic communications between health providers is an effective way to raise awareness of essential information, according to research published Oct. 4 by BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.