Johnson & Johnson Institute Adds Analytics-Based Learning Platform to Help Surgeons Improve Technical Clinical Outcomes

A new digital learning capability now available from the Johnson & Johnson Institute, a world leader...Read more

Walgreens and Inovalon Partner To Improve Patient Outcomes

AllianceRx Walgreens Prime, the combined central specialty and home delivery pharmacy formed by Walgreens and pharmacy...Read more

Ohio Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: National Attention, Local Connections

The State of Ohio’s Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) recently purchased and implemented a controlled substance...Read more

HealthCore Announces Direct Access to its Research Data for Improved Insights & Decision Making

Life sciences companies can – for the first time – access one of the largest commercially...Read more

Health Current, Arizona’s HIE Improves Care Through Data Sharing

Horizon and many other Health Current participants who care for SMI patients have reported that receiving...Read more

The National Alliances for Healthcare Purchasers Advocates for Drug Cost Transparency.

To drive collaboration to control cost, reduce waste and maximize effectiveness of specialty drugs, the National Alliance and its member...Read more

GLHC & University of Michigan Research Project Pursues Collaborative Approach for Understanding Opioid Abuse

A University of Michigan research project, called the “System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance” (S.O.S.) is leveraging...Read more

EHNAC on Interoperability Key in Trusted Exchange Accreditation Program

WEDI, SAFE-BioPharma Association, LLC, eHI, and eP3 Foundation are collaborating with the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation...Read more

PWC Discusses Customer Experience in the New Health Economy: The Data Cure

With the advent of digital technologies, consumers are generating reams of data that are being collected...Read more

CMS Approves the Maryland’s Total Cost of Care All-Payer Model

Maryland Department of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced the federal...Read more

Christus Health Talks About How They Integrate and Organize Data Across the Enterprise

Data growth at CHRISTUS has come from shifts in care delivery from fee for service to...Read more

Colorado Use Public Health & HIE to Investigate Communicable Disease

The Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment (PDPHE) works to protect citizens of Pueblo, Colorado from...Read more

Privacy in the Age of Algorithm

Cognizant's center for the future of work leaders will discuss how to prepare for changes to...Read more

Cerner Evaluates the question: Is Meaningful Use Over?

The EHR Incentive Program, commonly known as Meaningful Use (MU), has been considered over or has...Read more

Step by Step Guide to Fix Provider Data Issue Hurting Payers, Providers, and Patients @ CAQH

CAQH discusses provider data drives the most fundamental processes in the healthcare system. Industry stakeholders rely...Read more

Booz Allen Hosts Panel of Policy Experts to Discuss Blockchain in Healthcare

Booz Allen recently hosted a panel of policy leaders and practitioners from both the public and...Read more

American Heart Association Using AI To Predict, Prevent And Treat Cardiovascular Diseases

AHA discusses legacy medical devices and how they are “a key vulnerability for hospitals and health systems,”...Read more

ACR To Use AI to Better Meet The Clinical Needs of Radiologist

The ACR brings a strong clinical perspective, decades of experience creating imaging standards, and a history...Read more

Liquid Biopsies: Past, Present, and Future

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out better ways to find out if a...Read more

AAFP Joins Effort to Decrease 2018 MIPS Reporting Period

The AAFP recently joined more than 40 other medical organizations in urging CMS to make a...Read more

Allscripts is Adding AI to Speech Recognition for More efficient EHR Documentation

Allscripts evaluates the cleircal burden of EHR documentation as a significant problem facing hospitals, health networks and...Read more

New Clinical Data Repository on the Way for Health Information Exchanges at 4Medica

In its latest offering for the health information exchange technology stack, 4medica is launching a new...Read more

Solera Health Builds Platform for California Food is Medicine Coalition Tailoring Meals for Chronic Disease Patients.

Solera Health, a leading integrated benefit network, announced a partnership with the California Food is Medicine Coalition...Read more

Sonora Quest Laboratories Launches Hereditary Cancer Gene Testing

Sonora Quest Laboratories, Arizona’s leading provider of diagnostic testing and information services, has announced the availability...Read more

How a Health Plan Improved Medication Adherence Among Medicare Advantage Members (Attached)

Poor medication adherence is responsible for the deaths of over 125,000 Americans each year and costs...Read more

Salesforce Named #1 CRM Provider for Fifth Consecutive Year

Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that for the fifth consecutive year it has been...Read more

Google Talks About Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records

Google researchers have applied machine learning to electronic health records, and have shown the ability...Read more

The New Health Economy in the Age of Disruption

While the US health industry has experienced active deal-making in recent years, deals announced in the...Read more

Noridian Awarded $227M by CMS for UPIC SMRC Contract

Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC has been awarded a $227 million Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) contract by...Read more

LexisNexis Taps Social Determinants to Help Hospitals Predict Readmissions

LexisNexis' Readmission Risk Score is part of a broader suite of socioeconomic-related tools that leverage SDOH...Read more

ConnectiveRx Shows Detailed Analysis of High Copay Impact on Adherence

Patient out of pocket drug cost is a primary component of the medication adherence equation. Consider...Read more

AHIMA Fuels Clinical Documentation Improvement With New Toolkits

Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps healthcare organizations capture meaningful data for improved quality reporting and clinician...Read more

Nebraska Becomes First State to Require all Drugs be Reported to Prescription Monitoring Program

Nebraska is the first state to require reporting of all dispensed prescription drugs to the Prescription...Read more

Mayo Uses IBM Watson as Part of The Clinical Team

Watson is artificial intelligence in action. It mimics the way humans observe, interpret, evaluate and make...Read more

Massachusetts Medical Society Supports CARE Act and Funding to Prevent Substance Abuse

The CARE act would authorize $100 billion in new funds over 10 years. There is much about...Read more

Information Blocking Rule Likely Delayed, Mickey Tripathi CEO, MeHC Comments

A big and open question about the information-blocking rule is whether it would provide some type...Read more

Marshfield Clinic Develops Computer-Based Method to Search Medical Records to Understand the Impact of Genetic Diseases on Health

Marshfield Clinic Research Institute (MCRI) and data from Marshfield Clinic's biobank were part of a study...Read more

44 Medical Association and Societies Tell CMS That They Need Relief From MIPS Reporting

Concerns with physicians’ ability to satisfactorily participate in the MIPS program due to the late notification and...Read more

ACP Releases Recommendations to Address Social Determinants of Health

The American College of Physicians released a set of 9 recommendations today meant to address social...Read more

Next Gen is Helping Organizations Establish Clear Goals for Big Data Analytics While Investing in Scalable Health IT

As the principles of value-based care become increasingly important for success in the healthcare delivery environment,...Read more

Verato & Healthix Work Together To Automate Patient Matching

Healthix is using the Verato Universal MPI to automate its data stewardship and improve its patient...Read more

AMA Unveils Alternative Payment Model for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder

The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association announced a new alternative payment model...Read more

AAFP Asks CMS to require EHR Companies to Provide No-Cost EHR Updates to Physicians

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recently requested CMS require that EHR vendors provide any...Read more

CORHIO Applauds ONC for Trying to Create Stronger Interoperability and Fulfill the Goals of Meaningful Use.

CORHIO, IHIE, and CliniSync are ready to take on the challenges of participating in...Read more

Surescripts Physician Survey Shows Need for More Interoperable Access to Patient Data

Half of physicians feel that their access to patient data could be much better, according to...Read more

AHA Precision Medicine Platform Offers Up Data for Machine Learning

The promise of precision medicine is often overshadowed by the data challenges that can accompany it. Many...Read more

J&J Uses Consumer Data to Enhance the Customer Experience

Robert Boland from Johnson and Johnson assembles a team takes a systematic approach in pursuing breakthrough innovation,...Read more

Hogan Lovells Advises AI Company in Achieving FDA Approval

IDx LLC, with assistance from Hogan Lovells, achieved a major grant of De Novo classification from...Read more

Researchers at Google showed using all data contained within a patient EHR can improve accuracy for predictive analytics

A recent study by researchers from Google, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Stanford University, and University...Read more

Healthix Completes Full Integration with Medicaid Data

The availability of Medicaid claims data through the New York Public HIEs has been long anticipated....Read more

Healthcore's Seven-Year Study of Medical Claims Show Low Uptake of HPV Vaccine

Fewer than a third of adolescents received a first dose of HPV vaccine by their 13th...Read more

CRISP Success Story: Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) Leverages Encounter Data to Power Effective Callback Program

Encounter Notification Service (ENS) enhances JHCP’s ability to comprehensively engage with patients and identify the root...Read more

EHNAC’s Executive Director Provides Comment on ONC Draft of Trusted Exchange Framework

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology...Read more

Health Current Explores Improving Counseling For End of Life Care

Some of the most difficult decisions for patients, their families and their providers involve end-of-life care,...Read more

Artificial Intelligence Technology Behind Advanced Gaming and Driverless Cars Powers New GE Healthcare Ultrasound System

In the lead up to the European Congress of Radiology, GE Healthcare today announced the commercial...Read more

Booz Allen to Help FDA Modernize the Human Drug Review Process

Driven by its responsibility to protect and promote public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...Read more

PwC’s 20th Annual Global CEO Survey looked at the perspectives of 1,379 CEOs

The sector summary, ‘A new treatment?: Healthcare findings from the 20^th Annual Global CEO Survey’ canvassed views...Read more

NextGen Healthcare Launches New Corporate Logo and Brand Identity

Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII), known to its clients as NextGen Healthcare, unveiled its new corporate logo...Read more

GLHC comments on U.S. DHHS Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement

Great Lakes Health Connect (GLHC) appreciates the opportunity to comment about the proposed Trusted Exchange Framework...Read more

Cerner Announces New Collaboration with Salesforce to Extend Care Beyond the Exam Room

Cerner announced a new collaboration with Salesforce, the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM). Cerner...Read more

Updox and Creative Pharmacist Partner to Connect Pharmacists to Prescribers to Prevent Opioid Abuse

Updox, the industry leader for care coordination and healthcare customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has united...Read more

Booz Allen & Kaggle Launch Annual Data Science Competition

In an era when terabytes of data can be analyzed in just a few days, the...Read more

Inovalon and the University of Maryland Center for Health Information & Decision Systems Collaborate on Machine Learning and Neural Network Applications

Through this engagement, CHIDS will join Inovalon’s ongoing development initiative focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP),...Read more

Accenture Discusses Blockchain and Reveals 4 Guidelines for Transforming Social Innovation Organizations

Accenture discusses how Blockchain’s applications have extended far beyond commercial use cases. Blockchain as a concept is now ten...Read more

Availity Chimes in on Five Ways to Reduce Healthcare Administrative Costs

Mark Martin from Availty joins the discussion about 5 ways to reduce healthcare administrative costs. Read more

American Hosiptal Association Responds To Request For Policy Recommendations To Address The Opioid Epidemic

As the nation continues to struggle with the devastating public health crisis created by the opioid...Read more