Like HIMSS Analytics' electronic medical record and continuity of care maturity models, the five-stage DELTA-Powered Analytics Assessment is designed to help providers gauge their health IT progress relative to their peers and reveal where the organization should be investing its resources to advance…

The following is a roundup of healthcare data breaches reported in the last 30 days, beginning with the most recent:

Iowa Medicaid Enterprise has announced the personal information of more than 800 Iowa Medicaid beneficiaries was mailed to the wrong health clinic in February, according to a Muscatine Journal report.

NOVAChiropractic & RehabCenter of Sterling (Va.) has announced their office is missing an unencrypted thumb drive containing more than 5,500 patients' information.

Recent reform efforts responding to the unsustainably rising costs and relatively disappointing quality of healthcare in the U.S. have sent all sectors of the healthcare industry scrambling to understand how their business models must change moving forward.

Due to the growing strategic importance of IT in healthcare, hospital and health system CIOs around the country are seeing their IT budgets increase, according to the 2014 HIMSS Leadership Survey.

Scott Joslyn and Harris Stutman, MD, have been colleagues and friends for the past 25 years. "We've had a variety of different relationships over the years, with both direct and indirect reporting structures," says Dr. Stutman. "We're very comfortable with each…

The following is a roundup of recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives reported within the last week:

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Sims and Associates Podiatry has notified patients of a data breach that occurred when its office was burglarized and three laptops containing patients' personal and health information were stolen.

Watertown, Mass.-based Tufts Health Plan has reported it suffered the theft of the personal information of 8,830 Medicare subscribers, according to a Boston Globe report.