Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has paid a ransom of 40 bitcoins, worth approximately $17,000, to a group of hackers who infiltrated the hospital’s computer systems.

A consistent rise in physician overrides of drug allergy alerts in electronic health records (EHRs) highlights an urgent need for increased efforts to help reduce alert override rates and alert fatigue among doctors, according to results of a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Push and query are gaining momentum in the Keystone State as preferred methods of health information exchanges, according to the results of a Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority survey of health information organizations (HIOs) throughout the state.

Healthcare consumers became less concerned about the privacy and security of their medical and related records in the three-year period 2012 to 2014. But will the trend of trust endure in the wake of the massive, high-profile data breaches that started dropping like confidence-busting bombs in 2015?

Radiology Regional Center, a diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced this week that records containing personal patient information fell from a waste management truck onto the street in Fort Meyers, Fla., while being transported to be incinerated.

A man discarding trash at a St. Petersburg, Fl.-area landfill stumbled upon unsecured patient medical records originating from a now-closed urgent care facility, according to a report from ABC News.

Company Demonstrates Integration of Images Captured by Mobile Devices; Capabilities of Vendor-Neutral Physician Viewer and Patient Portal Modules.

Hackers are holding a Hollywood, Calif., hospital ransom, demanding $3.6 million in Bitcoin to release the vital patient data they encrypted in a ransomware cyberattack.