HHS has partnered with the Health Information Trust Alliance to offer monthly cybersecurity briefings to the healthcare community, as well as issue industrywide alerts when HITRUST identifies a high probability of a healthcare-related cyberattack.

Detroit Medical Center Harper University Hospital sent letters to 1,087 patients to inform them that documents with their personal health information were found with a hospital employee during an identity theft investigation.

University of California, San Francisco announced it is sending notification letters to 9,986 of its patients whose information was contained in computers that were stolen from the UCSF Family Medicine Center.

Holon Solutions and the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals announced an agreement with North Texas Medical Center to build a health information exchange that will connect the hospital with physician clinics in the surrounding area.

California-based St. Joseph Health mistakenly released the private information of 11,800 home health patients to an investment firm working on a business proposal for the health system.

A new study by the Ponemon Institute identified the top vulnerabilities of healthcare organizations concerning protected health information.

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Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center has spent the past 10 years implementing, adopting and optimizing its Cerner electronic health record system. Now, the Richmond, Va.-based organization is focusing on using the capabilities of the EHR to drastically reduce preventable patient…

Although interoperability is a main priority for hospital CIOs in 2014, many are facing significant obstacles, according to the results of a CIO focus group conducted by Corepoint Health.