Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Hospital has notified thousands of patients of a possible data breach of their personal and medical information after a hospital laptop was stolen from a hospital employee's car in March, according to a WSPA news report.

HHS has proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule which allow people to learn who has electronically accessed their protected health information.

Acute stroke patients who arrive at Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital's emergency room can now be seen immediately by a stroke neurologist at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center without the specialist actually being there, according to a hospital news release.

South Carolina, along with Massachusetts, is one of the leading states to recruit physicians in a statewide effort to connect their electronic health record systems, making the states eligible for incentive payments under HHS' meaningful use program, according to a…

The Office for Civil Rights has issued a proposed rule that would revise HIPAA's security rule regarding accounting of disclosures of protected health information.

CMS has issued a proposed change to the current e-prescribing incentive program.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to establish a set of technical descriptions and guides for provider directories, which would be used in secure exchange of health information, by July, according to a Government Health IT…

Weill Cornell Medical College researchers found that even though electronic health records could effectively reduce the number of prescribing errors, physicians find it difficult to transition from older to newer versions of EHRs, according to a Weill Cornell news release.

The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs will jointly develop a computerized system that would merge veterans' healthcare records, according to a New York Times news report.

Reps. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) plan to introduce legislation that would provide meaningful use of electronic health record incentive payments to individual hospitals within a multi-campus system and are asking others…