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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced this month that five Golden State hospitals had been assessed administrative fines and penalties totaling $675,000 after it was determined they'd failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information.
The Certification Commission has selected two new, all-volunteer panels to develop criteria for electronic health records in women's health and in oncology, the latest domains to be added to CCHIT's certification programs.
The Office of the National Coordinator is finalizing the details and design of NHIN Direct, the health information exchange tool-set it is preparing to help physicians and small practices share basic healthcare records securely over the Internet.
MaxMD and Workflow have announced a partnership agreement under which Workflow will offer MaxMD's HIPAA-compliant email and data encryption capability as an embedded technology in workflowEHR and Workflow's other software products.
The health IT office said it will have certification bodies chosen by late summer; certified products available by fall.
Health office offers guidelines on conditions under which substance abuse records can be exchanged electronically.
During National Health IT Week, health IT leaders meet with legislators, press for regulatory advances
Office of the National Coordinator putting final touches on simple health information exchange tool-set in advance of late summer release.
TriMedx Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides healthcare equipment to hospitals in Third World countries, and whose mission is to offer "hope and health through medical technology," recently reached its goal of impacting more than one million lives.
Christopher Longhurst, MD, has been named chief medical information officer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. In his role, Longhurst will focus on ways to extend digital data to patients and families to improve the continuum of care, he said.