The following is a roundup of recent healthcare data breaches caused by cyberattacks and phishing schemes that have been reported in the last month.

A new app has been developed that helps patients become more engaged in their healthcare, according to a Columbus Business Journal report.

Verizon has announced it is expanding its secure cloud and data infrastructure by adding five additional data centers across the nation.

Last month, Tennessee became the 21st state to enact a telemedicine parity law. Now, health insurers are required to cover services delivered remotely via telemedicine at the same rate as the same service delivered in person.

In a recent whitepaper, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shares three ways laboratory professionals can contribute to the development of safer electronic health record systems.

Incubator Rock Health has selected its new class of seven health IT startups, companies with products ranging from mHealth solutions to telemedicine services.

Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston now offers a certificate in digital health communication through the school's health communication program.

Physicians are most interested in using their mobile devices to access electronic health records, according to a survey from MedData Group.

On Tuesday, the Health IT Policy Committee's meaningful use workgroup hosted the first of two virtual listening sessions, inviting hospitals and physicians to share their meaningful use stories and struggles.

  A proposed rule published Tuesday by CMS and the ONC would give providers more flexibility in attesting to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting period.