On the same day McKesson announced most of its health IT unit will be merged into a brand new company, a second announcement says it could also divest itself of its hospital information systems division.

A hacker by the name of “thedarkoverlord” is advertising the sale of hundreds of thousands of heath records, including social security and insurance policy numbers, reports MotherBoard.

When doctors, nurses and pharmacists are hit with too much information, specifically related to electronic health records (EHRs), they can tune out the information. This fatigue can result in real problems affecting patient health and overall efficiencies in the system.

Healthcare organizations will pay more per lost or stolen record when their data is breached, according to a new study by IBM and the Ponemon Institute.

Health IT safety isn’t just about protecting electronic health records, said two new reports released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

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Large practices are increasingly more satisfied with their electronic health record (EHR) vendors and products and plan on implementing updates this year to optimize those systems to assist in value-based reimbursement.

At ProMedica, a 13-hospital system serving northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan, the lineup of clinical departments soon to benefit from leadership’s decision to expand a long-installed radiology PACS into an enterprise VNA practically reads like a who’s who of the entire system. Cardiology, pathology and ophthalmology are on line or in line to be soon. So too are dermatology, wound care, maternal-fetal medicine, outpatient physician practices and more.