As healthcare reform forges on, some players in the healthcare industry have voiced concerns that other key pillars in the field, such as HIPAA, are becoming outdated, according to a report in The Morning Consult.

Stock prices in the health IT sector declined 10 percent overall in the first half of 2014, according to a report from Healthcare Growth Partners.

More and more healthcare organizations are using virtual desktop infrastructure, according to a report from IT security firm Imprivata.

A growing demand for unaltered and unformatted data, especially for research and analytics efforts, has introduced "the lake" into the health IT lexicon, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.

  Cloud-based health IT vendor athenahealth is expanding its strategic partnership with Henry Schein to incorporate the latter's Dentrix Enterprise electronic dental record system into the athenaNet electronic health record platform at community health centers, including federally qualified health centers.

Overall, health IT consultants appear to be slightly more satisfied with their job than full-time health IT employees, according to a survey from Healthcare IT Leaders, a health IT consulting and staffing firm.

The global healthcare analytics market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 25 percent over the next five years, according to a report from Research and Markets.

While HIPAA was enacted to protect the protected health information of patients, it appears hospitals are incorrectly citing HIPAA as a protection of their own interests, argues Charles Ornstein, a ProPublica healthcare journalist, in a report co-published on NPR.

The following mHealth app launches were reported within the past two weeks.

In 2013, 4.4 million of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanante's 9.1 million members used the health system's online management platform called My Health Manager, according to its 2013 Annual Report.