The Senate Finance Committee is soliciting feedback and comments on how to make digital health data easier to use, according to a Minneapolis Star-Tribune report.

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health's wholly owned subsidiary HealthNet connect is expanding its fiber optic network to eight hospitals in Nebraska.

Researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia are using in-home motion sensors to not only monitor older adults, but are also syncing that information to hospitals to provide comprehensive health information.

San Francisco-based CollabRx has launched CancerRx, an mHealth app meant to help oncologists and pathologists find appropriate oncology therapeutic options for patients.

Needham, Mass.-based BBK Worldwide has launched two new apps geared toward patient and site engagement for participants in clinical trials, according to a news release.

More than half the reported health IT data breaches in 2012 — 53 percent — were due to theft, according to HHS' latest Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information.

The vast majority (83 percent) of healthcare providers use cloud-based services currently and many plan on moving more systems and data to the cloud, according to a HIMSS Analytics survey to be presented this week at the Privacy and Security…

Google will officially launch its mobile health and fitness tracking platform at its annual developers' conference, June 25 to June 26 in San Francisco, according to a report in Forbes.

A recent RAND report discussing various innovations within the healthcare industry points out that while electronic health records have been shown to improve patient care they are also a new source of medical errors.

  According to data released last week by CMS, a total of 75 hospitals have attested to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting year, and eight of those have attested to meaningful use stage 2.