Officials took Vermont Health Connect, the state's online health insurance marketplace, offline in mid-September for data security enhancements, but it had known about its security issues since early June, according to Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.

Every summer I plan to grow a larger, more prolific garden than the previous year. I have the previous year under my belt, after all, so surely that learning should count for something?

 Hospitals racing to meet meaningful use stage 2 requirements are feeling the financial pinch of having to make large IT investments.

Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, based in Brewer, is in the process of eliminating 43 IT positions in an effort to avoid a budget shortfall.

Walgreens and WebMD are working together to incorporate digital and in-store offerings to promote consumer wellness.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System has announced it is the first to fully integrate Apple's new mobile health platform with its Epic EHR system.

Texas Health Resources has backtracked on a statement released Thursday that said a workflow flaw in the EHR led to a missed Ebola diagnosis at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

Facebook users could soon have access to online, disease-specific support communities or be able to use a Facebook-developed preventative care app to improve their health, according to a Reuters report.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with Walgreens to electronically share data on veterans' immunizations.

Resulting increases in efficiency helped 17 community-based primary care clinics recoup their EHR expenditures in an average of 10 months, according to a new study in JMIR Medical Informatics.