Modernizing Medicine appointed Joe Harpaz as president and COO, the specialty health IT vendor confirmed July 16.

The American Medical Informatics Association unveiled the Fellow of AMIA Applied Informatics Recognition Program.

Butler (Pa.) Health System implemented solutions from LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Occam Technologies to enhance its patient-matching capabilities.

The physician group at Lubbock, Texas-based University Medical Center Health System, UMC Physicians, began notifying more than 18,000 patients of a recent data breach that may have compromised their protected health information.

Two of the three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week.

Cerner created 50 new jobs at its operation in Dublin, most of which are focused on research and development as well as the management of its European clients' data, according to Silicon Republic.

Large companies are migrating computing workloads from private data centers into public clouds, according to a Goldman Sachs Group report covered by The Wall Street Journal.

Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tenn., will spend about $30,000 on a medical records backup system for its physicians group after a three-day computer outage affected 90 of its physicians in early May, according to The Daily Times.

EHR vendors have contributed significant dollars to political candidates, campaigns and organizations in recent years  — via leadership, employees or their own political action committees.

The ONC opened submissions for its Certified Health IT Product List Data Challenge on July 10.