A user error that made the personal health information of 6,800 Columbia University Medical Center patients accessible on internet search engines will cost the hospital and its partner Columbia University Medical Center $4.8 million.

A user error that made the personal health information of 6,800 Columbia University Medical Center patients accessible on internet search engines will cost the hospital and its partner Columbia University Medical Center $4.8 million.

Lots of thoughtful consideration went into the FDASIA health IT draft report, said Jodi Daniel, JD, MPH, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Office of Policy Planning, at the May 6 Health IT Policy Committee meeting. She stressed, however, that the report is still in draft form.

A May report from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) shows significant progress in hospitals adopting at least a basic electronic health record (EHR) system. However, the same week the report was released, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials revealed that, so far this year, only four hospitals have met Stage 2 meaningful use requirements.

Stanford researchers examined hospital claims for privately insured patients between 2001 and 2007 and found that what some health economists had warned does indeed seem to be true — hospital ownership of physician groups does seem to lead to more expensive care.

Physician leadership is essential to a better overall healthcare system, according to a white paper published by the American College of Physician Executives.

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – May 1, 2014 – MRO Corp., a leader in disclosure management and health information exchange, announced today that it is a founding member of Carequality ("care-e-quality"), an industry collaborative bringing together diverse HIT industry leaders in order to build consensus on how to accelerate seamless health information exchange.

Consulting firm Oliver Wyman’s ongoing tracking of the growth of accountable care organizations (ACOs) finds an additional 150 such payor-provider arrangements since its last report in July of 2013.