A study in Plos Computational Biology found Wikipedia to be an effective tool to predict and survey infectious disease outbreaks.

Northfield (Minn.) Hospital & Clinics is notifying approximately 1,700 patients that their protected health information may be compromised after documents containing their information were placed in a commercial dumpster.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has agreed to settle a previous data breach for $100,000, according to a Boston Globe report.

EHRs could assist researchers in repurposing drugs, according to new research from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.

Florida Blue has installed a telehealth kiosk in its Miami facility, which will use Miami Children's Hospital physicians and nurses to provide remote pediatric treatment, according to a report from South Florida Business Journal.

Americans are more comfortable sharing their health information than social media or credit card purchase information, according to a poll from Truven Health Analytics and NPR Health.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Truman Medical Centers has received two health IT awards: the 2014 CHIME/AHA-Transformational Leadership Award and the HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award.

The following vendor contract and IT go-lives were announced within the past week.

Post-acute care provider Genesis HealthCare has selected DataGen and Single Track Analytics to analyze and support Model 3 of the Medicare Bundled Payment for Care Improvement

As it turns out, there's more to worry about than hacking from the cloud. New research from Ben-Gurion University in Israel has shown it is possible to hack into computers that aren't connected to the Internet, according to a report…