Update: More Alerts About Medical Device Security Flaws

Several recent advisories from federal regulators concerning newly identified vulnerabilities in certain medical devices serve...Read more

Innovation at ACC | Potential of Voice/Conversational AI in Medicine

ACC explains the important reasons why it is an opportune time now for the healthcare sector...Read more

How Asynchronous Telemedicine Saved SSM Health 18 Minutes Per Visit

Telemedicine vendor Zipnosis has focused on a virtual visit solution.The solution would be unique in that...Read more

How Direct Secure Messaging Can Help Manage Social Determinants of Health

The DirectTrust network allows for automated notifications that support the providers’ ability to care for their patients...Read more

Making the Case for National Unique Patient ID

Congress is considering whether to allow regulators to fund work on developing a national unique patient...Read more

Healthix Delivering ‘Smart Alerts’ to Clinicians

Heeding calls from customers for more services, health information exchanges are finding ways to add value...Read more

NEHI Submits Comments to CMS Regarding the Physician Self-Referral Law

NEHI's comments put the physician self-referral law, also known as the Stark Law, in the context...Read more

Inovalon Clients Outperform Market for CMS Star Ratings for the SixthYear in a Row

Increasingly, across the Medicare Advantage market, we are seeing that the ability to achieve quality excellence...Read more

Advanced Medical Imaging Technology

Doctors at Mayo Clinic have developed magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a new technology that determines the...Read more

eHI And UnitedHealthcare Among Those Pushing ICD-10 Coding For SDOH

Jennifer Covich, eHI’s CEO, calls SDOH a critical issue which is why eHI working with stakeholders...Read more

EHNAC Launches New Advisory Business For Privacy & Security Compliance

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is launching a new consulting and advisory arm to help...Read more

Zipnosis Uses Voice of the Customer to Drive Platform Development

Zipnosis announces the company’s ongoing strategy of engaging customers and industry leaders to advance virtual care and...Read more

Approved as Alternative Test Method for EHRs to Achieve ONC Health IT Certification for E-Prescribing

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has named Surescripts as an ONC...Read more

Why Isn’t A National Patient Identifier Enough?

Verato CEO comments on the landmark decision to limit HHS’ ability to assist in funding and...Read more

More Logins, More Problems, Lack of Integration Biggest Frustration for Providers

Updox releases an all-in-one healthcare collaboration platform, survey respondents ranked lack of integration as their most frustrating health IT challenges...Read more

New Best Practice Approach to Resuscitation Competence and Data Management Unveiled For Hospitals

An integrated resuscitation product pairing combining the latest in resuscitation science, data management and quality improvement...Read more

Aim To Improve Provider Operations When Customizing The EHR

Dr. Saxena discusses Marshfield Clinic Health System's upcoming EHR customization and the importance of using clinical...Read more

When It Goes Well, It Feels Like Magic” Two HIT Experts Chat about the Real-World Impact of Interoperability

Two HIT experts sat down to discuss, on camera, their real-world experience with healthcare interoperability. They...Read more

Full Steam Ahead on Academy's Health IT Innovation Project

AAFP's Board of Directors approved a 42-month special project to address issues related to EHR's and,...Read more

Validic Achieves ISO-27001 Certification For Information Security Management

 Validic™, the leader in health data solutions for remote monitoring and virtual engagement, today announced it has...Read more

Availity’s Authorization Solution: Case Study

Availity’s connections to both utilization management systems means that providers only have to go to one...Read more

UnitedHealthcare Donates To More Than 80 Affordable-Housing Communities Across The US To Address The Social Determinants Of Health.

UnitedHealthcare announced that it has invested more than $400 million to address the social determinants of health...Read more

Ohio Health Makes An Investment In Healthcare AI Adding New Tech Jobs In Ohio.

Fueled by fast-growing sales of its AI-powered 'bot and a $33 million venture capital infusion, Olive plans to...Read more

Internists Applaud CMS for Putting Patients at the Center, Supporting Primary Care in Proposed Physician Fee Schedule

The American College of Physicians (ACP) strongly supports proposed changes in Medicare payments to physicians that...Read more

Major Hospital Groups Recommend Changes to HCAHPS Survey

The American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals and three other major hospital groups have...Read more

Cyber Trailblazers Reframe Security, Driving Business Growth.

The demand for cybersecurity professionals is skyrocketing. The global cybersecurity workforce shortage will reach 1.8 million...Read more

eHI is Please to Welcome AWS as a New Member

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over...Read more

eHI is Pleased to Welcome DirectTrust as a New Member

DirectTrust is a collaborative non-profit association of 121 health IT and health care provider organizations to...Read more

4medica Urges 2019 SHIEC Conference Attendees to Stop Patient Duplicates with Guaranteed Virtual Master Data Clean-Up Program

President Gregg Church invites SHIEC attendees to "Stop Duplicates" by deploying modern-day patient matching techniques with...Read more

Christus Combined Single Sign-on, VDI To Save Time and Money

Christus Health combined single sign-on technology with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to reduce the time clinicians spend...Read more

Two of the Country's Largest HIEs Team Up to Share Data on Midwest Patients

Kansas Health Information Network, have signed an agreement to enable providers to have access to 20 million...Read more

APIs Take Root as the Path for Healthcare Interoperability

Google Clouds commitment to interoperability involves investment in our own products like the Cloud Healthcare API, as...Read more

Mayo Will Send 100K DNA Samples to Drug Maker

Mayo Clinic's Biobank is preparing to start sending the genetic code of 100,000 patients to a...Read more

CORHIO Goes Live With New Tool to Improve Care Documentation Efficiency

The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization will deploy technology that will enable its member hospitals make...Read more

Nebraska HIE Implements Improved Prescription Monitoring

NeHII and the state agency will utilize electronic prescribing and medication management solutions from vendor DrFirst...Read more

Healthcare & Insurance Providers Talk Millineal Health at Forum

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield held the Millennial Health Forum, along with the Greater Des...Read more

Health Catalyst Interoperability Exchange Clinical Dispatcher

Health Catalyst shares their method to securely share clinical data with payers for more coordinated, collaborative...Read more

Digital Technology is Transforming the Surgical Field—and Healthcare

Check out this informative article about how digital tools and tech can improve all aspects of...Read more

Closing Gaps in Real-World Evidence Through Data Linkage

Dr. Kevin Haynes, Principal Scientist, HealthCore-NERI discusses the importance of data fragmentation in healthcare, issues among...Read more

Preparing for an AI-Driven Future

AI has proven it's ability to help inform clinical decisions based on many variables and huge...Read more

Change Healthcare Rolls Out New AI Tech to Help Reduce Denials

Change Healthcare, developer of analytics technology for value-based care, has launched a new AI-powered tool to...Read more

AZ Doctor’s Plea: Don’t Destroy Thousands of Patients’ Medical Records

The former chief medical officer of two bankrupt Arizona hospitals is begging a judge not to...Read more

7 Key Ways Healthcare Can be impacted by Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to have an immense impact on the medical field. This will...Read more

Cognizant Named an AI Services Leader in IDC MarketScape Report

Cognizant announced that market intelligence and advisory services firm IDC has named it a leader in...Read more

eHI is pleased to welcome American College of Cardiology as it's Newest Mermber!

Today, with more than 52,000 members from around the world, the College is once again facing...Read more

A First for the Industry, ZipPlus Gives Health Systems the Flexibility to Build and Launch Nearly Any Virtual Care Service

Zipnosis, a leading virtual care software company, today launched ZipPlus, a services and tech enablement program...Read more

HHS Cybersecurity Task Group (405d) Offers Practical Guidelines to the Healthcare Industry

HHS Cybersecurity Task Group (405d) Offers Practical Guidelines to the Healthcare Industry. Lee Barrett, Executive Director...Read more

How to Transform Revenue Cycle Management With New Digital Solutions

Healthcare providers must transform their revenue cycle management (RCM) operations with new digital solutions to maximize...Read more

The AAFP Supports the Intention to Add Population Level Data Exchange Into the TEFCA

The AAFP supports the intention to add population level data exchange into the TEFCA and the efforts to...Read more

AHA Comments on CMS' Proposed Rule to Promote Electronic Health Information

The AHA fully supports CMS’s intent to expand the ability of hospitals and health systems, health...Read more

Using Technology To Bridge a Gap

Wellmark talks bluetooth technology playing a key role with in-home biometric monitoring. Patients may be provided with...Read more

Clarifiying The Patient Picture as the Volume of Consumer Driven Information Increases

Validic discusses how the U.S. healthcare system is facing a variety of challenges that make it...Read more

Healthcare Administrators Share Perspectives on Current Experiences and Needed Improvements

Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative asked providers about the state of patient matching technology which they deem needs...Read more

Major Radiology Societies Release Findings on Accelerating Advances in AI for Medical Imaging

This collaborative workshop between major radiology organizations was instrumental in bringing together the key stakeholders to...Read more

Gundersen & Marshfield Clinic Discuss Possible Merger

Gundersen Health System and Marshfield Health System are discussing how the two organizations might come together...Read more

Change Healthcare Unveils Claims Lifecycle Artificial Intelligence

Change Healthcare announces Claims Lifecycle Artificial Intelligence, a new capability being integrated into the company's Intelligent...Read more

Inovalon’s Elastic Container Technology Providing Cloud Burst Capacity On Demand

Inovalon (Nasdaq: INOV), a leading provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare, today announced that its...Read more

Epstein Becker & Green

eHI would like to welcome our newest member Epstein Becker & Green. We look forward to...Read more

Walgreens and VillageMD Collaborate to Offer Primary Care Services in Houston

Walgreens and VillageMD, a leading national provider of primary care, today announced a collaboration focused on...Read more

Maryland is Maximizing the Clinical Efficiency of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) may be key assets in the effort to combat the nationwide...Read more

ou Don't Think You Have a Patient Matching Problem. But Will Your Patients Agree?

For more than two decades, HIPAA has protected a patient’s rights to his or her medical...Read more

UnitedHealthcare and the AMA Collaborate to Understand and Address Social Barriers Preventing People’s Access to Better Health

UnitedHealthcare and AMA support using data for social determinants of health to improve and simplify how...Read more

Device Talks – Zipnosis Founder Pearce’s Vision for Changing Healthcare Delivery

Check out Zipnosis Founder Pearce’s Vision for Changing Healthcare Delivery on Video here. It's and in depth...Read more

OhioHealth One of First Worldwide to Use New Single Port Robot

OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital recently became one of the first hospitals in the world to use...Read more

Accelerate Precision Medicine

The AHA Precision Medicine Platform makes data available to researchers to accelerate precision medicine research using...Read more

Northwell Health Add AI to EMR to Help Reduce Readmissions

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is integrating artificial intelligence software into its EMR at 15 hospitals...Read more

3 Patient-Engagement Technologies to Implement into your Practice

A key to patient engagement is keeping your clients as informed as possible about their options...Read more

ACOG Committee Opinion: Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Reduce Health Inequities

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) suggest tools to address health inequities.Read more

Social Determinants of Health: Lessons From 2018

In 2018, social determinants of health (SDOH) received considerable attention in the healthcare industry. Data insights...Read more

Health IT Will Help Achieve the Value in Value-Based Care in 2019

Electronic health records (EHRs) and automated processes are the tools powering this change. Stakeholders are looking...Read more

Marshfield Clinic Research Institute Celebrating DNA Day 2019 With Presentation: Human Genetic Research in The 21st Century

Significant advances in genetics have been made over the last 100 years. It is expected that even...Read more

Consumer Horizons 2019

The Consumer industry is evolving at lightning speed, and the way consumer companies operate is shifting....Read more

eHealth Initiative Would Like to Introduuce our Newest Member UChicago Medicine!

UChicago is advancing the forefront of Health every day. Their physicians are shaping modern Medicine with...Read more

Solera Health Launches Disruptive SDOH Program

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Institute is forming a “disruptive business alliance” with Solera Health, an...Read more

Telehealth Promises Faster, More Convenient Access to Healthcare services

From mobile apps for monitoring medications to virtual appointments with specialists, telehealth services are creating new...Read more

Impact Report: Prescription Price Transparency

Traditional prescribing is plagued by information gaps and unwelcome surprises that can delay—or completely derail—the patient’s...Read more

The 2019 Innovator Awards Third-Place Winning Team: UnitedHealthcare

Leaders at UnitedHealthcare have implemented a program that is incorporating social determinants of health data into...Read more

HASA Health Information Exchange Selects 4medica to Match Patient Identities

Nearly 5,000 HIE provider participants, other Texas HIEs and 15 state HIEs will access the same...Read more

Fluctuating Blood Pressure After Stroke Could Mean Higher Risk of Death

American Heart Association discusses how utilizing technology more and more, will help provide a better long-term...Read more

George Conklin is Making Sure Christus Health Stays Wired

Earlier this month, D CEO held its Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer Awards, recognizing the top tech business...Read more

Boost Medication Adherence Via the EHR

Today’s technology provides significant opportunities for brand teams to inspire and provision adherence-boosting communication between prescriber...Read more

Northwell Health: Achieving Quadruple AIM by Investing Big in Data

To achieve the Institute for Health Improvement’s Quadruple AIM, Northwell Health has made key investments in...Read more

2019 Award winners announced by MMS Committee on Information Technology

The MMS Committee on Information Technology is proud to announce the winners of their 18th annual Information...Read more

Fitbit Launches Four New Wearables and an Upgraded App Experience

From bold smartwatches to inspiring trackers, Fitbit has four new products fit for everybody! Starting this...Read more

Cerner to Streamline Electronic Health Record at Alabama Health System

Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, is expanding further into the Alabama rural health care market...Read more

Tech Companies Fret Over Data Privacy, but Ready to Bet on IPO Market

Cybersecurity concerns, along with U.S. economic growth, are the two top drivers anticipated to spur overall...Read more

A Boards Guide to NIST Cybersecurity Framewrk for Better Risk Oversight

PWC names 5 activities that define a holistic approach to a company's cyber risk management. By...Read more

New Desktop Application Helps Long-Term and Post Acute Providers

Health Current recently introduced a simple desktop application, the Health Current Gateway, that enables the secure...Read more

What Innovation Will Have The Greatsest Impact on Health Systems? Spoiler Alert: Most Say AI

Mark LaRow, CEO of Verato discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on health systems with HealthLeaders...Read more

Availity and NextGen Healthcare Collaborate to Enable Cost Transparency in an Industry Fraught With Rising Deductibles

For healthcare providers, the laborious process of registering patients, estimating costs, collecting up-front payments, reducing denials...Read more

eHI Welcomes Newest Member VillageMD

VillageMD enables primary care providers to have a greater focus on proactive care and direct more...Read more

Measuring and Benchmarking Coding Productivity: A Decade of AHIMA Leadership

As the depth and breadth of medical knowledge continued to expand, AHIMA knew that ICD-9-CM's limited...Read more

Leading Health Plans Adopt CAQH Solution to Streamline Provider Directories in Tennessee

CAQH ProView, the trusted source and industry standard for self-reported provider data, is used by more...Read more

Chronic Conditions Meet Their Match

Call it the match.com for health care—a platform that connects people to a curated and...Read more

Measuring and Benchmarking Coding Productivity: A Decade of AHIMA Leadership

HL7 FHIR R4 contains the first normative content for the interoperability standard, creating a firm...Read more

Perioperative Surgical Home, the “Google Home” of Healthcare

With Google Home, music, lights, switches, doors, temperature, or anything in Google’s own Nest line-up of...Read more

Online ACS Community Helps Researchers Collaborate

The TheoryLab social media platform is bringing together some of the brights minds in research to inspire...Read more

Allscripts Offers Free Pharmacogenomics Testing To U.S.-Based Associates

Allscripts launched a precision medicine program to benefit its U.S.-based associates. They will be given...Read more

Welldoc Achieves Significant Digital Health Milestone by Securing Its 10th Patent for Its BlueStar Digital Therapeutic.

Welldoc’s groundbreaking technology is guiding individuals through the complex journey of living with chronic disease, with the goal...Read more

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Will Drive a Patient Matching Revolution in 2019

2019 will mark the beginning of a patient matching revolution in which health systems...Read more

CommonWell Health Alliance Announces General Availability of Carequality Connection

CommonWell Health Alliance announced the rollout of its connection to the Carequality Framework, which is now...Read more

Real-Time Ultrasound Assessment Available at Gundersen St. Joseph's

On the cutting edge of technology, Gundersen Health Systems Imaging team is one of the first...Read more

Top Three 2019 Healthcare Cybersecurity Trends

With billions of people across the world entrusting healthcare organizations to protect their identities, these same...Read more

Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Plans Has Joined the Rapidly Growing Ranks of Health Plans Implementing Inovalon’s Clinical Data Extraction as a Service

Leading Blue Cross Blue Shield Organization Joins Growing Ranks of Health Plans To Leverage Inovalon's Clinical...Read more

AMA Statement on Affordable Care Act Ruling

American Medical Association released the following statement after the federal district court in the Northern District...Read more

Validic Launches Lightweight Remote Monitoring Platform

Validic announces device-agnostic remote monitoring extension to augment the functionality of existing clinical and care management...Read more

Availity Announced an Agreement to Provide Availity Patient Access and AuthPal Services.

Availity announced an agreement to provide Availity Patient Access and AuthPal services through the Q/ris 3000...Read more

NextGen Healthcare Announces New Telehealth Capability

This partnership integrates the OTTO Health telehealth application with the NextGen Enterprise platform, allowing clients a...Read more

Virence Health Technologies Achieves HITRUST CSF® Certification and HITRUST Certification of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to Manage Risk, Improve Security Posture and Meet Compliance Requirements

During the two-year review with HITRUST, Virence provided evidence of enhancements to these products in over...Read more

KHIN Expands Health Information Exchange with New Participant

Through KHIN, Saint Luke’s will gain access to longitudinal patient health records that are electronically updated...Read more

Parkview Health First to Activate New SMART® and FHIR® Technology Standards Through Healthwise

Healthwise has been an excellent partner in continuing their commitment to patient-centered, innovative care offering New...Read more

The Newest MRI Technology is Now Mobile

Gundersen Health System, in partnership with Shared Medical Services, is pleased to introduce its new mobile...Read more

The Technologist Voice: The Value of PGHD in Acute Care

There are some technical differences, to be sure – integration with the systems that back up...Read more

ACR Data Science Institute™ Hosts International Field of AI Experts

This medical imaging AI summit is one of many pacesetting steps the ACR has taken to...Read more

San Diego's Leading Healthcare Provider Recognized for Optimal use of Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR solution

Allscripts client Sharp HealthCare’s affiliated medical group, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, located in San Diego, Calif., has achieved...Read more

EHR Vendors: Are You Ready for Standards Changes Coming Soon to ePrescribing?

Among all the requirements, three related to electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) may have escaped the attention of...Read more

Researchers use Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Data to Create Prediction Tool for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Researchers used a large set of clinical data from patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis, along with...Read more

Zipnosis Covers 4 Ways Telemedicine is Changing Healthcare

The industry of telemedicine is at a tipping point, expanding far beyond interactions between physicians and...Read more

Defining Today's Digital Patient

Today, care communication and delivery mean more than just what occurs within the hospital. For the...Read more

eHI Welcomes Fitbit as it's Newest Member

You may have one on your wrist, but we have one on our leadership team! Fitbit...Read more

Extending the Case for Digital: Health Plan Members Speak

Healthcare consumers’ appetite for digital is keener than ever. Cognizant's exclusive study reveals 10 key findings...Read more

"Happy Health IT Week From The eHI Team"

U.S. National Health IT Week (NHIT Week) is a nationwide awareness week focused on catalyzing actionable...Read more

Virence Health Technologies

“eHI is looking forward to working with Virence Health Technologies on a variety of initiatives...Read more

eHI welcomes BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence Innovation As Its Newest Member

eHI welcomes BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence Innovation as its newest member! The BDO Center for Healthcare...Read more

Healthcare Technology Innovator Accelerates Diabetes Prevention in the Cloud

Solera Health is successfully fighting type 2 diabetes. Its secret? Using Microsoft Office 365 to give...Read more

Surgery, Radiation Therapy Equally Effective In Treating Common Type Of Head And Neck Cancer

This study merged the HealthCore Integrated Research Database with state cancer registry data to identify 884...Read more

Great Lakes Health’s Doug Dietzman Touts Data Sharing in Times of Crisis

HealthTech spoke to GLHC's Doug Dietzman about data security and storage, GLHC’s biggest challenges, the benefits of HIEs,...Read more

CRISP Introduces the” Patient Care Snapshot”

CRISP unveiled the Patient Care Snapshot application within the CRISP Unified Landing Page (ULP). The Patient...Read more

Tech Giants Join Forces On Tools To Improve Medical Record Sharing

Some of the nations biggest tech giants are trying to break into the healthcare world to...Read more

Digital Therapeutics: How New Approaches to Behavioral Health Boosts Healthy Profits

As corporate America rethinks its approach to behavioral healthcare, disruptive technologies are spearheading a new breed...Read more

Dr. Chaoui, MMS React to Opioid Legislation

Evidence shows opioid-related overdose death rate in Massachusetts is 120 times higher for individuals recently incarcerated,...Read more

Reimagining Personal Well-Being and Health With a Digital Life Coach

Strecher launched JOOL Health to help employers, health plans, and health systems improve their populations' overall well-being through...Read more

Referential Matching: The New Gold Standard in Patient Matching Technology

There is a powerful new technology called " Referential Matching" that is a fundamentally different approach to...Read more

NextGen Healthcare Completes Integration of CoverMyMeds, the Nation’s Largest Electronic Prior Authorization Platform

NextGen Healthcare, announced that its cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) ambulatory product, NextGen Office, has completed...Read more

ARE WE READY TO ROCK & ROLL WITH INTEROPERABILITY?

While interoperability is considered one of the greatest healthcare innovations of our time, it’s not perfect,...Read more

InterSystems, Texas HIE Partner to Boost Health Data Exchange

Intersystems recently partnered with Greater Houston HealthConnect to boost health data exchange, care coordination, and interoperability...Read more

Better Connected For Better Care: The Benefits of PCDH

The Health Collaborative discusses the Patient Centered Data Home (PCDH) project impacts care coordination along with...Read more

Improving Care Through Data Sharing Health Current, Arizona’s Health Information Exchange or HIE

Health Current participants who care for SMI patients have reported that receiving Alerts on SMI patients...Read more

Michigan Health Information Network’s Patient Matching Strategy Improves Electronic Information Sharing

4medica announced today that its master patient index (MPI) technology is being used by the Michigan...Read more

Google Is Now Using AI To Keep It's Data Centers Cool And Save Energy

Google has saved 30 percent on its energy bills by improving the efficiency of its cooling...Read more

The Hogan Lovells Law Firm Advised On The First Ever Blockchain Technology-Based Transaction On The Polish Office Market

In August 2018, the Polish startup, ShareSpace, carried out the first ever blockchain technology-based transaction on...Read more

PWC Makes 2018 AI Predictions 8 Insights To Shape Business Strategy.

PWC makes eight such predictions based on insights from AI visionaries, as well as what PwC...Read more

Rural Hospitals Need More Funding for Broadband and Telehealth

The American Hospital Association said rural healthcare entities need more federal funding for technological infrastructure as...Read more

An ACO story: How calculated risk is paying off (Allscripts)

CCHC offers a great example of how to succeed with value-based care. When evaluating its progress...Read more

Sharing Behavioral Health Information Amid the Opioid Crisis

A new issue brief prepared in collaboration with the eHealth Initiative and Foundation addresses the role...Read more

KHIN Finds a New Approach To Using Clinical Data Standards To Measure Quality

Value-based payment for care requires the consistent, objective calculation of care quality. Previous initiatives to calculate...Read more

Why AI Isn't About Disruption

CCDS partnered with GE Healthcare to bring AI to healthcare. Since the announcement, Dr. Michalski’s team...Read more

A Big Imagination Produces Amazing Results from the OhioHealth Digital Solutions Team

OhioHealth dicusses the "Digital Experience." Ohio Health's engineering shop creates some of the really cool and impactful...Read more

Closing Keynote will Examine Future of Health Care Delivery Systems in a Digital World

Zipnosis examines the success of health care delivery systems is a telling sign of the new...Read more

New Medicare Advantage Rules Hold Big Potential for Pop Health

The focus on social determinants of health and population health management is part of the broader...Read more

Results From the LexisNexis Health Care Roundtable Discussion with 30 High-Level HealthCare Executives.

LexisNexis Health Care assembled a group of about 30 high-level healthcare executives to find out what...Read more

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