The EHR market has seen interesting developments in mergers and technological advancements over the past month.

With covered entities doling out more than $25 million for HIPAA violations, and with more than 30 million individuals affected by data breaches since 2009, organizations need to plan ahead to safeguard their protected health information, said Peter Paulli, CISA, executive consultant at Strategic Advisory Group, during a Beacon Partners webinar.

WATERBURY, Conn., June 18, 2014-- Therap Services, leader in electronic documentation software for Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disability Service Providers, has received U.S. Government Patent No. 8,739,253 B2 for Managing Secure Sharing of Private Information Pertaining to Abuse or Neglect Across Security Domains on May 27, 2014.

Since 2009, the Department of Health & Human Services has reported more than 1,000 medical record breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.

drchrono, the creator of a free EHR platform on the iPad, iPhone and cloud, has created the first “wearable health record.”

The Electronic Health Record Association will have new leadership after the group’s annual elections in early June.

Medtronic and Covidien have entered into a definitive agreement under which Medtronic has agreed to acquire Covidien in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $42.9 billion.

A stolen unencrypted USB drive is the source of a breach affecting almost 34,000 patients.