California-based insurer Health Net is conducting an investigation into several server drives that are unaccounted for from its data center operation located in Rancho Cordova, Calif., according to a company news release. This investigation follows notification by IBM, Health Net’s…

The initial driver of patient privacy in the US was HIPAA enacted in 1996. As stated in the original HHS privacy rule, a core component of HIPAA’s purpose was the ability to protect patient privacy while at the same time…

Even though adoption rates of electronic health records remain high, only 47 percent of healthcare executives are certain health IT will improve their organizations, and 85 percent are concerned about financing health IT, according to results from a Dell study.

Akron General Hospital and Summa Health System have launched a pilot program that allows the healthcare organizations' physicians and affiliated practices to electronically share patients' lab results, according to a Beacon Journal news report.

The RxNorm standard clinical drug vocabulary, produced by the National Library of Medicine, now contains more accurate and complete connections between National Drug Codes and standard nonproprietary names of medications recommended for use in electronic health records, which can boost…

The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has developed a new framework to help states and Washington, D.C., create self-sustaining and effective networks for the exchange of electronic…

The Georgia Health Policy Center at Georgia State University was awarded three contracts totaling more than $9.2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration to support healthcare access in the rural U.S.…

Cleveland Clinic immunologist Vincent Tuohy, PhD, has won the Clinic's annual Sones Innovation Award, according to a news release.

Despite critical remarks regarding the proposed criteria for stage 2 meaningful use and Dr. David Blumenthal's pending move back to Harvard, the national coordinator for health IT sent a reassuring message to the public that stage 2 meaningful use indeed…

Charleston (W.V.) Area Medical Center and the West Virginia attorney general has taken actions to secure the private information of 3,655 patients affected by a data breach on a CAMC website, according to a news release from the attorney general's…