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One-third of recently surveyed physician practices and 14% of surveyed hospitals do not conduct a regular security risk analysis of their electronic health information.

Americans are underutilizing their 401(k) plans, according to a survey of 1,000 participants by the ING Retirement Research Institute.

After pulling together the efforts of a high-powered team of journalists, benefits experts, videographers and stylists — okay, maybe not the stylists or videographers — Employee Benefit News is happy to announce the launch of BenefitsTV, its new video series that brings you face-to-face with benefits experts and newsmakers as they share their insights on the industry news of the day.

Whether an employer continues to offer health insurance once state-run insurance exchanges take effect in 2014 will largely depend on the size of the employer, according to a survey by Mercer.

The technology to support these types of telemedicine is advancing speedily along. The speed of physicians and health plans adopting it, however, is a different — and much slower — story. I talked to Eric Demers, senior vice president of health and life sciences at MEDecision, about why telemedicine is so slowly advancing and the role employers can play to push progress along.

Attitudes toward the economy have improved over the past month among both small and midsized businesses, according to a new survey.

A number of Facebook communities have sprung up to lend emotional and moral support to patients with diabetes, but the sites can also house questionable and biased information, report researchers at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Although voluntary turnover has dipped significantly this year, a new PwC Saratoga study says employers are giving more attention to career development and performance management in anticipation of increased turnover as the economy improves.

Voluntary turnover overall has dropped 21% since 2008 to 7.3%, and voluntary turnover rates among high performers dropped from 5.7% in 2006 to 3.7% in 2009, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

For defined contribution plans to work, large U.S. retirement plan sponsors believe they should be mandatory, and include auto enrollment, savings escalation and employer contributions, according to a recently released study by Northern Trust.