Erin McCann, Associate Editor
Erin McCann is Associate Editor at Healthcare IT News. She covers physician practices, ambulatory care and social media in healthcare. Follow Erin on Twitter @EMcCannHITN
POCATELLO, ID | Erin McCann | May 23, 2013 | 10:37 AM | Electronic Health Records, Privacy and Security, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Idaho State University will pay $400,000 to the U.S. Department of Health Human Services to settle alleged violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The settlement comes after ISU's Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic disabled server firewall protections for a... More
WASHINGTON | Erin McCann | May 22, 2013 | 10:34 AM | Electronic Health Records, Quality and Safety, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
More than half of all eligible providers nationwide have received federal incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records, rates that have more than doubled since last year alone, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced... More
OREM, UT | Erin McCann | May 22, 2013 | 09:57 AM | Electronic Health Records
Healthcare providers and industry IT professionals have expressed concern over their ECG technology's lack of bidirectional communication and poor interoperability with electronic medical record systems, according to a KLAS report released Tuesday. More
Erin McCann | May 21, 2013 | 09:26 AM | Quality and Safety, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare. It's one of the last market strongholds desperately clutching to its principles of secrecy, and it won't go down without a fight. But many experts say this stands as one of many reasons the industry... More
DALLAS | Erin McCann | May 20, 2013 | 10:52 AM | Network Infrastructure, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
The healthcare IT applications market continues to grow, according to a new Research and Markets report, which projects that by 2017 the global market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent. More
SHREVEPORT, LA | Erin McCann | May 17, 2013 | 11:08 AM | Privacy and Security
Siemens Healthcare and Louisiana State University are notifying 8,330 patients of a HIPAA breach following a database mishap that resulted in billing and treatment information being mailed to the wrong patients. More
CHICAGO | Erin McCann | May 17, 2013 | 10:38 AM | Network Infrastructure
Bed management software applications have witnessed record growth rates over the past five years and are considered the new hot market for vendors and providers to watch, according to the findings of a new HIMSS Analytics report. More
WASHINGTON | Erin McCann | May 15, 2013 | 16:40 PM | Electronic Health Records, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management, Policy and Legislation
Members of Congress are lauding a bipartisan bill that limits funding for an integrated electronic health record system between VA and DoD and requires aggressive progress updates from both agencies, which have, in recent months, come under fire for the... More
Erin McCann | May 15, 2013 | 10:37 AM | Electronic Health Records, Mobile/Wireless
The majority of physicians nationwide believe health information technology can precipitate positive outcomes in the provider setting, but in many realms -- such as mHealth -- health IT continues to be underutilized by docs, according to the findings of a new... More
BOSTON | Erin McCann | May 13, 2013 | 16:50 PM | Mobile/Wireless, Quality and Safety
Status quo doesn't sit well with the innovation team at Boston Children's Hospital. Being consistently ranked one of the nation's top hospitals is no easy task -- especially in the innovation arena. But Naomi Fried, the hospital's chief... More
MEMPHIS, TN | Erin McCann | May 13, 2013 | 10:17 AM | Privacy and Security
The Regional Medical Center in Memphis is notifying patients of a data breach after an employee sent out three unsecure emails containing the protected health information and Social Security numbers of nearly 1,200 patients. More
PORTLAND, OR | Erin McCann | May 10, 2013 | 10:30 AM | Health Information Exchange (HIE), Network Infrastructure, Quality and Safety
Kaiser Permanente Northwest has become the latest member to join the Oregon Health Network, a national rural healthcare pilot program and subsidiary of OCHIN, one of the nation's largest health information networks. More
