Electronic Medical Records (EMR) news and information

Two northern California healthcare organizations have sent letters to more than 17,000 patients notifying them that their personally identifiable medical records have been exposed in separate breach incidents. Meanwhile, links between one of the breaches and a meth amphetamine investigation may...
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All doctors may think they do a great job making their patients healthier, but now data can show if they really do, according to a Kansas doctor serving on a national commission.
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iSalus Healthcare named Kimberly Poland to the newly created role of VP of client engagement, effective June 1.
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Last year, Asheville, N.C., entrepreneur Scott Campbell launched WellCase, a wallet card that connects to an online portal to readily convey a patient's medical records to first responders. The service has signed up subscribers ranging from home healthcare providers for Alzheimer's patients or the...
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Cleveland Clinic patients will begin to see more detailed information in their online electronic medical records beginning this week giving them broader access to test results and physician reports.
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More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they had agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information.
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Hospitals in the U.S. pledge to keep a patient's health background confidential. Yet states from Washington to New York are putting privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person's identity to medical conditions using public information.
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Idaho State University agreed to pay $400,000 and adopt a corrective action plan under a settlement agreement with HHS' Office for Civil Rights at HHS over a breach of data security involving the records of about 17,500 patients at its Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic.
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Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System is contacting more than 5,000 patients on behalf of its Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News, Va., to let them know of an electronic health records security breach.
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In what the group said is the first move of its kind in the state, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, Christus Health of Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health Services and Southeast Texas Medical Associates have teamed up to form a regional health information network that will link electronic...
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