Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Hospital and police are investigating the theft of four computers that contain limited personal information about 1,213 patients, reports WMUR New Hampshire.

The American Medical Informatics Association has expanded the features of its online learning program, which prepares professionals planning to take the clinical informatics subspecialty board exam.

A session during the iHT2 Health IT Summit offered details on the successful health information exchange effort in Maine, which includes every hospital in the state, links 400 practices and facilitates 13 million messages.

Data brokers operate with a fundamental lack of transparency, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and Congress should consider enacting legislation to make data broker practices more visible to consumers and to give consumers greater control over the immense amounts of personal information about them collected and shared by data brokers.

A California appellate court has ruled that Eisenhower Medical Center, based in Rancho Mirage, Calif., is not liable for a data breach affecting about 500,000 patients.

A study of seniors finds that a digital divide could be developing between those who can access their records online and those who cannot.

The global electronic prescribing systems market is expected to hit $794 million by 2017, according to a report from market research firm MarketsandMarkets. The report analyzed and studied the market’s major drivers, restraints and opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and elsewhere throughout the world.

The Department of Health and Human Services need not issue any more regulations governing cybersecurity.