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By Mike Miliard | 11:46 am | August 26, 2015
Analytics firm Inovalon, which develops cloud-based intervention technology for payers, physicians and ACOs, will acquire Avalere Health, which provides advisory services and business intelligence tools to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:14 am | August 26, 2015
EHR vendor Greenway Health is hailing what it calls a milestone in the world of healthcare interoperability: a collaboration with its customer Premise Health and several ambulatory providers that use IT systems from both from Greenway and Epic.
By Henry Powderly | 10:22 am | August 26, 2015
Despite the many Medicare shared savings ACOs that cut enough of their spending in 2014 to merit financial incentives, the lion's share of them fell below the payment threshold, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday.
By Mike Miliard | 07:34 am | August 26, 2015
Offering a novel approach to a complex security challenge, Imprivata on Tuesday introduced PatientSecure, a patient identification platform that uses palm vein biometrics to link patients with their EHRs.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 pm | August 25, 2015
Novant Health patients soon will be able to share data from their fitness tracker with their doctor through the health system's electronic patient portal, MyChart.
By Erin McCann | 11:50 am | August 25, 2015
One cloud-based EHR company has just inked its 600th partnership deal, one of the newest being with big-name clinical lab startup Theranos.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:35 am | August 25, 2015
The President's Commission on White House Fellowships announced Monday the appointment of the 2015-2016 class of White House Fellows, and seven among them work in the healthcare sector.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:02 am | August 25, 2015
Health IT professionals are often proud of their employers. But only an elite group is worthy of being deemed the best of the best. Here's the list of finalists for Healthcare IT News' 2015 Best Hospital IT Departments Awards.
By Mike Miliard | 06:40 am | August 25, 2015
By now, everyone's got an EMR. And most providers are also making use of ancillary technologies to help harness patient data toward more efficient care and better outcomes. But many species of health IT are still surprisingly underused in the U.S. hospital market.
By Susan Morse | 04:54 am | August 25, 2015
Most insurance plans established under the Affordable Care Act are losing money and may have difficulty repaying millions in loans, according to an audit report released by the Office of Inspector General.