The following health IT vendor contracts were announced in the past week.

  Greenwood, S.C.-based Self Regional Healthcare is notifying patients after a laptop was stolen from one of its facilities.

Allscripts' electronic health record platform can now be fully connected to Arkansas' statewide health information exchange program, State Health Alliance for Records Exchange, according to a news release.

A woman who took a picture of her son at a Mercy hospital in Springfield, Mo., was detained by hospital officials claiming she had violated HIPAA, according to a Springfield News-Leader report.

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.