Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

This year's conference hit on many healthcare trends, including machine learning, analytics and population health. And then there were Dan Rather, Ginni Rometty, John Boehner and Michael Leavitt. Here are the high points, all in one place.

The cost of payment fraud not only significantly diminishes provider revenue, but also creates extensive losses within health delivery along the entire care continuum. Implementing health IT solutions to eliminate payment fraud will successfully address these losses, as well as simplify and maximize payment collection.

The HCI Group, which works with major providers on end-to-end implementation of electronic health record systems, offering support for Epic, Cerner and others, will be acquired by Tech Mahindra in a $110 million deal.

Mercy Technology Services, the IT arm of the Catholic health system, is partnering with Tahoe Forest Health System to deploy an Epic electronic health record system at its locations in California and Nevada.

The rollout expands on Epic's initial deployment at CVS MinuteClinics, and will enable better care coordination for rare and complex conditions.

The Government Accountability Office determined in an investigation that Health and Human Services has not measured whether its efforts are working and lacks a comprehensive plan for doing so.

On Feb. 28, Amazon's S3 cloud-based service experienced outages that caused a number of major websites and apps – including many across healthcare – to stop working optimally.

The winning teams put strategies such as open APIs to work enabling secure and straightforward movement of patient data.

The platform enables oncologists to identify evidence-based treatment regimens for patients through integration of NantHealth’s eviti platform and Allscripts’ Sunrise EHR.

(SPONSORED) Prescription 4: Balancing Regulatory Compliance with Strategic Initiatives. Healthcare organizations rely on IT teams to carry out their strategic initiatives, such as interoperability across systems.