The Utah Health Exchange, a state insurance exchange whose development started several years before the healthcare reform law mandated exchanges, was recently hacked, with words garbled, headlines blurred and some pages inaccessible.

Patients are generally okay with the electronic storage and transmission of their health information as long as privacy and security safeguards are in place, according to research published in the September/October issue of Annals of Family Medicine.

Agfa HealthCare and Orion Health have formed a strategic relationship to image-enable EHRs and HIEs and for regional-enabled Hospital Information Systems/Clinical Information Systems/Electronic Patient Records.

A patient-centered future is in sight. That was the message delivered at the 2012 Consumer Health IT Summit.

An investigation revealed that two University of Miami Hospital employees were inappropriately accessing patient information from registration face sheets, and may have sold the information to a third party.

The College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the eHealth Initiative (eHI) have conducted a joint survey of 90 provider organizations to see how they use and analyze data. The results were shared during an Aug. 30 presentation by eHealth Initiative CEO Jennifer Covich.

WARWICK, R.I.Providers may be frustrated with the growing number of requirements for Meaningful Use and public reporting programs, but representatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT reminded an audience of Rhode Island providers that there is a purpose to these initiatives.

The White House has appointed 18 inaugural members of the presidential innovation fellows program, an initiative that will bring individuals with experience in the private sector to work on one of five projects in Washington, D.C. for six-month durations.