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By Bernie Monegain | 11:07 am | August 06, 2015
Big Blue scoops up the medical imaging technology provider and plans to integrate the acquired products with its Watson supercomputing and analytics capabilities.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:43 am | August 06, 2015
Half of primary care physicians across the country view the increasing use of quality-of-care metrics and penalties for unnecessary hospitalizations as potentially troubling for patient care.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:06 am | August 06, 2015
How a health network eliminated noisy alerts and, in turn, improved response times and patient consults, updated its EHR more frequently, and reduced length-of-stay.
By Tom Sullivan | 04:27 pm | August 05, 2015
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday revealed that it is working to build a software platform for precision medicine and an informatics community around it.
By Erin McCann | 11:58 am | August 05, 2015
2015 thus far has been the year of hackers targeting the healthcare industry. And they don't appear to be slowing down. Just last week, another business associate notified individuals that their protected health information was stolen following yet another "sophisticated cyberattack."
By Erin McCann | 11:53 am | August 05, 2015
The popular crowd-sourced review site Yelp is teaming up with an unlikely partner to put more healthcare facility data and reviews into the hands of the consumer.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:40 am | August 05, 2015
Research determined that medication management via text or instant message may be the patient engagement tool doctors need to help people with chronic conditions at home.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:13 am | August 05, 2015
Health Catalyst has acquired Health Care DataWorks, a company with roots in Ohio State University, and one that works on improving patient outcomes much like Health Catalyst does.
By Bernie Monegain | 08:59 am | August 05, 2015
Topping off what Cerner executives detailed during the company's earnings call Tuesday as a highly successful Quarter 2, in spite of profits falling, was the icing on the cake: the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization project. Photo: David Gleason, 2008
By Erin McCann | 12:13 pm | August 04, 2015
A pair of IT security researchers have successfully designed a worm that will break into a Mac's operating system, widely considered more impenetrable than its PC counterpart. And there are huge implications for the healthcare industry.