Although the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) supports a time requirement of less than 30 days for a patient to receive access to or copies of their individual electronic PHI, the healthcare organization cautioned Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to adopt a reasonable timeline so as not to negatively affect or divert healthcare provider resources to address such requests.

InterSystems has released its InterSystems Cach database, targeting performance processing for event processing systems.

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $320 million in grants under the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act to strengthen the healthcare workforce. 

At Health Imaging & IT, October is Top Trends season. Every year, we dive into the results of our annual survey and unravel the details of how decision-makers are grappling with the complex demands of imaging and IT.

Dell will make a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to support the launch of the University of Buffalo's new Institute for Healthcare Informatics in New York.

One in three prescriptions are now e-prescriptions in Massachusetts, according to e-prescribing network provider Surescripts last week at the annual Safe-Rx Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysis of guidance and contract actions at the Departments of Defense (DoD), Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) found areas where sensitive information is not fully safeguarded and thus may be at risk of unauthorized disclosure or misuse.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has announced a privacy breach comprising more than 33,000 patient records housed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in South Los Angeles, and the arrest of a suspect charged with one count of felony commercial burglary.