In what can be seen as a major milestone in the healthcare industry's march toward increased interoperability, OpenNotes has reached 10 million patients in the U.S., all of them able to view medial records online.

Spreemo, a New York-based healthcare analytics company, is building up its leadership team, hiring two new executives.

Difficulties and problems related to the implementation of EHRs have been circulating ever since the technology was developed. Physicians struggle to understand the technology, it can take up the time it was supposed to save, and the quality of care can be questioned as physicians try to focus on both the EHR and the patients.

As cyber attackers increasingly become a threat to healthcare providers' data assets and IT systems, new cybersecurity vendors are entering the market as hospitals and clinics are looking for better ways to protect their patients' information, as well as their own financial and trade secret information.

In what HHS’s Office of Civil Rights called its largest settlement ever against a single entity for HIPAA violations, Downers Grove, Illinois-based Advocate Health Care has agreed to pay $5.55 million for three data breaches which exposed the health records of more than four million people.

Testing for cognitive dysfunction has yet to enter the digital age, still clinging to the age of paper. Quest Diagnostics is pushing cognitive testing into a new age with the development of CogniSense, a digital cognitive assessment app that can produce results more efficiently and in a quicker manner when conventional testing.

The hackers have struck once again, this time attacking the Central Ohio Urology Group in Gahanna, according to The Verge.

Shift changes of doctors and nurses can cause uneasiness in some patients. A new team of physicians or nurses asking questions and evaluating your charts can cause fear of the new team's missing a step or important piece of information.