Here are five things to know about the computerized physician order entry market, according to a MicroMarket Monitor news release.

San Francisco-based Blue Shield of California is notifying 18,000 physicians and healthcare providers whose Social Security numbers were mistakenly made public, according to a ComputerWorld report.

From the compliance date of the HIPAA Privacy Rule on April 14, 2003 to Dec. 31, 2012, HHS' Office of Civil Rights received 77,190 complaints alleging violations of HIPAA rules, according to the OCR's latest Annual Report to Congress on…

A significant number of HIPAA complaints are not actual violations under the law, according to HHS' Office of Civil Rights' latest Annual Report to Congress on HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule Compliance.

As health IT proliferates in hospitals, so do potential patient safety issues. The ECRI Institute and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation have compiled a list of five health IT issues that should have the attention of hospital…

German technology giant Siemens is considering selling its health IT division, inside sources have told Bloomberg.

A new study contradicts a prevailing notion that hospitals use their electronic health record system to inflate their reimbursements by selecting more lucrative billing codes.

Data scientists largely agree it's the scope, rather than size, of big data that complicates analytics efforts.

CMS has released a new interactive tool to help hospitals understand how a proposed change to this year's meaningful use reporting would affect them.

Ten hospitals have reached meaningful use stage 2, according to new data from CMS.