Microsoft entered the Health Records maintenance market with its product HealthVault.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a release describing the new features of the Hospital Compare website that features HCAHPS data. In addition to the promised data, new information is provided about elective services.

The initial Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data was posted online today. Data from more than 2,500 hospitals is available to the public.

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A dental HMO in the Maryland area accidentally exposed the personal information of 75,000 patients in late February. Twenty days after discovering the error, the company notified those affected. The company has since announced that to its knowledge no one has misused the information.

A National Institutes of Health laptop with sensitive patient data on it was stolen in February. The data was not encrypted and the breach not reported for over a month when NIH officials finally tried to contact affected patients.