About 4,300 Massachusetts General Hospital patients’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth and dental info became available to unauthorized users in February, the hospital announced June 29. 

Date breaches have been dominating the news in recent months. Hackers have stolen patient records then sold them on the black market.

The good and the bad of electronic health records have been dominating healthcare for what seems like ages. This technology has the potential to improve wait times, make data secure and make work easier for physicians, yet it seems to be doing the exact opposite.

Healthcare information exchange just got a whole lot easier for the people of Pennsylvania as the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has announced that the Keystone Health Information Exchange (KeyHIE) is now connected to the PA Patient & Provider Network (P3N).

A recent GAO report on VA healthcare found the IT systems to be severally outdated despite the organization spending billions on IT. If they spent billions on IT “improvements," why is the IT system still outdated?  

CMS received more than 3,700 comments by the time the June 27 deadline to submit comments on CMS’s Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) new payment model passed. Various groups in the healthcare industry issued statements and suggestions.

Health information exchanges (HIEs) not only need to move data, they need to do so securely, quickly and cost efficiently. The many competing interests inherent in the American healthcare system have meant certain obstacles must be scaled before HIE implementation can become ubiquitous.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the largest cancer treatment centers in the country, has launched a new private enterprise network to streamline data-heavy applications like advanced imaging, electronic health records (EHR) and molecular medicine.