Two teaching hospitals in the Netherlands have awarded Agfa HealthCare a bid to implement components of its ICIS enterprise imaging clinical information solution as the hospitals collaborate to implement a new electronic health record, according to a news release.

Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., has agreed to pay a $150,000 settlement with the Massachusetts attorney general's office following a data breach compromising the protected health information of more than 12,000 Massachusetts patients, according to a news release…

Before Congress Wednesday, Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill raised concerns about mobile health apps sharing users' protected health information with third parties, according to a report in Reuters.

Merger and acquisition within the health IT has spiked during the first half of 2014, according to a report from Berkery Noyes.

CVS/Caremark and IBM have partnered to offer $1.5 million in grant funding to support the adoption and use of technologies that facilitate patient-provider communication at community health centers across the country.

Accountable care organizations need robust health IT to be successful, according to a study in the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Glenn Thompson (R-Penn.) are set to introduce a bill into the House of Representatives next week that has been hailed by health IT advocates as a major step forward in expanding the use of telemedicine…

Mobile communication is an integral and growing part of every aspect of modern life, including healthcare. Fast and secure communication between care team members can measurably improve clinical efficiency as well as patient outcomes — this is a given.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system appointed John D. Birkmeyer, MD, to the newly-created position of executive vice president for enterprise support services.

In the second quarter of 2014, health IT companies raised $1.8 billion in venture capital over 161 deals, more than double the amount raised in the first quarter of this year and the first time the sector has raised more…