Wellsboro, Pa.-based Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital, an affiliate of Williamsport, Pa.-based Susquehanna Health, has experienced a data breach that occurred when one if its employees improperly emailed 657 patients' information to Universal American, a health insurance company.

The HIPAA security rule data requirements expand beyond the security of physical computer servers to also cover the ways protected health information is accessed and transmitted to help prevent unauthorized third-parties from accessing electronic PHI.

A growing subspecialty, nursing informatics employs IT and data to improve nursing care.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University, both in New York City, have paid a combined $4.8 million to settle charges of a HIPAA violation following a 2010 data breach, the largest HIPAA settlement to date.

Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles and MemorialCare Health System, based in Fountain Valley, Calif., have partnered on a new initiative, Summation Health Ventures, designed to enable health IT innovators.

Consults conducted both virtually and asynchronously with chronic disease patients may help improve physicians' efficiency without sacrificing patient satisfaction, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health.

Surescripts, the country's largest health information exchange network, has identified 10 hospitals and health systems that demonstrate best practices in e-prescribing.

The Alaska legislature has passed a bill that would allow physicians to diagnose or provide a prescription for patients either online or over the phone, according to a news release from the bill's sponsor.

A new study released by Mobiquity, a mobile engagement provider, has found 70 percent of people use some type of health or fitness app on a daily basis, but 60 percent of those app users do not share the data…

A nurse at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center has been charged with stealing patient information and using the information to steal the patients' identities, according to a Times Union report.