An anonymous source has sent seven more Boulder (Colo.) Foothills Hospital patients copies of their medical records in the mail, according to a Daily Camera report.

Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives has filed a federal lawsuit seeking information related to a data breach that affected Tacoma,Wash.-based Franciscan Medical Group hospitals, according to a KIRO report.

Almost 50 percent of hospitals with 200 or more beds will purchase a new electronic medical record system by 2016, according to a KLAS report.

Teladoc, a telemedicine provider with more than 7.5 million members, has announced the acquisition of AmeriDoc, a telemedicine provider with more than 1.5 million members.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved marketing of the DEKA Arm System, the first prosthetic arm powered by electric signals from the user's muscles.

  The patient with the first confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus was admitted to Community Hospital in Munster, Ind., April 28.

The ONC's Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program has provided $250 million in grant funding to 17 communities across the country to develop focused projects that demonstrate the value of health IT in improving health and patient care while reducing costs.

In 2013, 62 percent of U.S. hospitals had exchanged clinical data electronically with an outside provider, according to a recent report from the ONC.

Six degrees of separation is the theory that we can all be bound through six connections or less. In today's digital world, this number seems to be shrinking all the time as we become more interconnected through social media and…

In a recent study, Minneapolis-based Allina Health compared physician productivity, hospital revenue, patient satisfaction and the quality of physician-patient interaction before and after the introduction of scribes into an Allina Health emergency department.