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Memorial Hermann Physician's network says doctors must be behind the wheel and provide aligned incentives for physicians. 

(SPONSORED) The major trend in healthcare in 2016 and beyond is how to nail down the issue of interoperability.

(SPONSORED) In this Q&A, he highlights how Konica Minolta is positioned to help solve today's healthcare challenges and what it plans to bring to health tech in the coming years.

Experian Health is the new brand for what were 11 businesses that serve the healthcare field, the company announced at HIMSS16.

Steve Steffensen tells Innovation Symposium crowd at HIMSS16 that data can improve results and create better relationships with the community.

(SPONSORED) Healthcare organizations are focused on patient care and health outcomes, and rightfully so, but financial well-being is equally important for organizations to continue to provide the highest quality care.

UPMC says it will take a majority interest in New York-based medCPU, become a customer of the company and also will co-develop new products to take to market. UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization arm of UPMC, has offered to purchase stock from existing non-employee medCPU shareholders, and executives expects UPMC will hold majority ownership in the privately held company when the offer is completed. [Also: Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC wins Davies Award] Also, planned for the second quarter of this year, UPMC will lead an investment round of $35 million in new capital to accelerate expansion of medCPU. Existing medCPU shareholder Merck Global Health Innovation Fund is also participating in this round. “Our partnership with medCPU will provide UPMC with technology and solutions that will be immediately valuable to our clinicians and patients,” said Tal Heppenstall, president of UPMC Enterprises. Longer term, he added, the technology would enable the development of other data-dependent applications in areas such as care management, population health and consumer engagement. The customer and co-developer model is one that UPMC has also employed with data analytics company Health Catalyst. MedCPU counts more than 60 hospital facilities among its clients. It will open a Pittsburgh office, hire more than 20 engineers and other staff to work with UPMC to co-develop additional products and to improve existing solutions. MedCPU’s technology addresses the healthcare IT challenges of interoperability, capturing all relevant patient data, and understanding free text, dictation and structured data from EHRs and ancillary systems, MedCPU CEO and co-founder and former helicopter pilot Eyal Ephrat, MD, said. Twitter: @HealthITNews

The vendor of clinical decision support and precision medicine technology is working with First Databank on the new gene-based drug-drug interaction capability.

The technology delivers stream analytics designed to unlock insights into the relationship between IT performance and clinical workflows, the vendor said.

Todd Dunn tells attendees at the Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit that creating new models requires executives to live in the setting of doctors and patients.