Bill Siwicki

A new study from HealthITJobs.com investigated how stress affects healthcare information technology workers and determined that more than half are frequently stressed because of deadlines, meetings, unrealistic workloads and too little time to exercise.

McKesson expands its ability to support customers in bundled payment programs with HealthQX’s ClarityQx software.

Advanced Plan for Health’s analytics technology will receive consumer health data from iHealth Labs mobile devices with the aim of enabling employers to reduce employee health costs and improve health outcomes.

One third of U.S. consumers are interested in receiving text message reminders from their doctors to take prescribed medicine, according to the Locent Text Adherence Survey.

The research firm rated 11 RTLS vendors and found that today’s vendors are looking beyond the basics to help healthcare organizations improve care quality, increase staff efficiency and boost the bottom line.

Interactive mobile messaging is helping improve the health of Medicaid patients while reducing costs, according to a study by Inland Empire Health Plan and the vendor mPulse Mobile.

The goal is to provide executives with a practical framework for addressing the people, process and technology elements of the cybersecurity challenge, Palo Alto Networks and PwC said.

Examples of innovation that can help shape 21st century medicine were recognized by the American Medical Association at its annual meeting this week.

Even if the Department of Veterans Affairs were to switch from its Vista system, the basis of Medsphere’s OpenVista EHR, Medsphere would continue to thrive, Irv Lichtenwald said.

The  2016 State of Vulnerability Risk Management report from security specialist NopSec also found that exploit techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated.