More than 75 percent of physicians use mobile apps in the course of their clinical workflow, according to a survey from MedData Group.

The following is a roundup of recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives reported within the last week:

Pittsburgh-based UPMC has reported the number of employees affected by a data breach at its facility has risen from 322 to 27,000, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.

On March 31, Citrus Valley Health Partners, a three-hospital system headquartered in Covina, Calif., completed its 90-day attestation period for year one of meaningful use stage 2, making the health system one of the first in the country to reach…

 Electronic medical records, patient monitoring devices and other technological advances are bringing more and more data into the healthcare industry. The challenge for the industry now is to use that data to lower costs and improve care.

In collaboration with CHIME, Becker's Hospital Review's "Life of a Healthcare CIO" series features leading hospital and health system CIOs from across the country who are sharing their experiences, best practices and challenges.

hack·a·thon (n.): An event, often spanning a period of days, in which programmers and others involved in software, Web or app development come together to create new products, usually under a common theme or in an attempt to solve a…

About 70 percent of consumers use fitness, calorie-counting or similar apps to help monitor their well-being, according to a survey by mobile solutions vendor Mobiquity. However, 60 percent of these users don't share information or trends gleaned from these apps…

Stocks of health IT vendor athenahealth fell slightly in Thursday's trading after the company reported earnings of $0.12 per share for the first quarter of 2014, lower than analysts' expectations of $0.17 per share, according to a report in The…

In 2012, Sutter Care at Home, an affiliate of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, began providing Android tablets for staff to use to access read-only copies of patients' electronic health records.