Primary care physicians receive an average of 76.9 notifications per day in commercial EHR systems, according to an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Metropolitan Jewish Health System (MJHS) in Brooklyn, N.Y., was the victim of a phishing attack in January. 

The costs associated with implementing an Epic EMR has lead to the lay off of 95 Southcoast Health employees. 

Cerner could be facing a class action lawsuit over lack of overtime pay, according to multiple reports coming out of Kansas, City, Mo., the health IT vendor's home base.

The patient’s story is the core of medicine and essential for accurate diagnoses and therapeutic relationships, but it's falling by the wayside, according to Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The U.S. healthcare industry, as well as other businesses and individuals globally, are susceptible to the threat of ransonware and variants of the virus, according to an alert from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team within the Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre.

CHIMA is holding a National Patient Identifier Challenge and so far, the response has been “tremendous,” said 2016 Board Chair Marc Probst, CIO at Intermountain Healthcare.

Documents containing sensitive information were accidentally submitted as part of a court filing, leading to a data breach affecting 900 patients.