Patients with fully electronic health records experienced fewer adverse events such as hospital-acquired infections, according to a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.

Miami-based Jackson Health System is facing its second security incident in the span of a week.

A hospital auditing company has reported a laptop containing data from nearly 31,000 patients was stolen, according to the McCook Gazette.

Apple Health, Washington state's Medicaid program, has reported a breach affecting the protected health information of more than 91,000 individuals.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) has finalized the criteria for Cloud-Enabled Accreditation Program (CEAP) along with the accreditation achievements of three cloud-computing vendors: FIGmd; HealthcarePays Network; and MedicaSoft.

The Senate health committee kicked off the first of three committee meetings on its biomedical innovation agenda by passing seven bills with bipartisan support. The next meeting is scheduled for March 9, where the committee will debate and vote on at least five bipartisan bills.

President Obama has requested a 35 percent increase in the 2017 budget for cybersecurity as well as announced plans to implement a Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP).