A flat fee for copies of medical records shouldn’t cost more than $6.50, according to new guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services.

As reported last week, the American Health Information Management Association has launched the petition asking the White House to address the need for a national voluntary patient safety identifier by removing legislative language that has prevented open discussion.

A Minnesota provider will pay $1.55 million to settle HIPAA violation charges relating to the lack of a business associate agreement.

The Department of Health and Human Services has named 21 people as members of its Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, a collaboration of leaders in the public and private sectors that will address cybersecurity issues in healthcare.

Health information exchange adoption and use is experiencing "considerable growth," but only in a few states, according to a report from NORC at the University of Chicago researchers.

HIMSS Analytics has awarded Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami with a Stage 7 Award, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and 32 other organizations are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to shorten the Meaningful Use reporting period for 2016 from 365 to 90 days.

Premier Healthcare reported a laptop containing protected health information had been stolen in January, potentially affecting 206,000 patients of the Bloomington, Ind., practice. In a rare positive turn of events, the laptop has been recovered.