Google Ventures, an existing investor in Flatiron Health, contributed the majority of the $130 million the big data startup recently raised in Series B funding.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Mo.) has notified 2,546 of its members their information was compromised when one of its employees improperly accessed their personal and financial information.

Telemedicine has experienced sharp growth in recent years, and it is poised to shake up healthcare. Below are five things to know about the telemedicine market, and how it is affecting the industry as a whole.

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.