Hawaii's largest health insurer, Hawaii Medical Service Association, has joined the Hawaii Health Information Exchange, according to a Pacific Business News report.

The release of the following mHealth apps were announced within the past two weeks.

The following vendor contracts were announced within the past week.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems is facing a putative class-action lawsuit in Alabama federal court for allegedly failing to secure its patients' data, which  allowed hackers to access the personal information of nearly 4.5 million people, according to a Law360…

The most-requested patient portal feature is online appointment scheduling, according to a new survey from EHR consultancy Software Advice.

Aetna will shut down its consumer-facing health app, CarePass, by the end of the year.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to healthcare organizations that it has detected hackers and other malicious actors targeting healthcare systems, according to a Reuters report.

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Telemedicine has the potential to improve access to care and ease the physician shortage. However, physician licensing and other regulations, a lack of reimbursement parity laws and other obstacles have hindered telemedicine's expansion.

The following data breaches were reported in the past three weeks.