It's the last chance for potential bidders for the Department of Defense’s $11 billion contract to replace its EHR system to submit an application.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, 2014--Practice Fusion, the nation's largest cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) platform, today announced strategic partnerships with three of Puerto Rico's premier health service companies, ASSERTUS Inc., Atlantic Pathology and HRP Labs.  The partnerships are part of Practice Fusion's effort to support the region's doctors and their ability to participate in the healthcare ecosystem.

Boston, MA, October 15, 2014 -- NoteSwift Inc. announced today the availability of NoteSwift™ for Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR. NoteSwift is the bridge between the EHR and Dragon Medical and interprets speech either as commands that a clinician can use to navigate the TouchWorks Note module, or as content to be inserted into the patient note.

A physician at Penn Highlights Brookville, a healthcare service, informed patients of a breach after an intruder accessed personal data stored on the server of a Ohio-based third-party vendor.

The Growing Portland collaborative, a City of Portland initiative to create jobs, generate investments and attract young workers, has received a $50,000 grant to study the possibility of establishing a health informatics sector in Maine.

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT gear up to release the proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3, the American Medical Association released a blueprint with recommendations to improve EHR functionality for physicians and improve care for patients.

The University of California Davis Health System has notified 1,326 patients that their protected health information was compromised when a physician's email account was hacked.

Cone Health, a provider based in Greensboro, N.C., is notifying more than 2,000 patients that their health information was compromised due to a clerical error.