A privacy breach of limited medical information caused certain patients information from the emergency department of the Stanford Hospital & Clinics to be posted on a website.

A multispecialty group practice, hospital, employers and health plans can define quality and align performance and payment along common goals, according to an article publish in the September edition of Health Affairs.

Undocumented children who have access to health insurance are healthier and more engaged in school than those without insurance, according to researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Findings from the data were published in two separate studies.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has cut the ribbon on a new initiative to query EHRs for population health data.

Innovation Exchanges for Health IT, an initiative from the White House Startup America Initiative in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has announced its several upcoming events.

A web-based event reporting system may erase some of the shortcomings associated with older safety reporting models in large radiology departments, noted researchers in a study published in the September issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) with changes to the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, organizations including the American College of Radiology, the Medical Group Management Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians have responded with criticism. Healthcare Billing & Management Association (HBMA) has joined the list of those organizations unhappy with the CMS' NPRM.

People who receive medical care in an integrated healthcare system with EHRs linked to its own pharmacy system more often filled and collected new medication prescriptions for diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure medications than do people who receive care in a non-integrated system, according to a study published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.