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More than 100 member organizations have committed to participating in the effort to empower patients and improve care delivery.

Before joining Cerner, Glaser was the longtime vice president and chief information officer at Partners HealthCare. 

Justice Department had alleged that the major oncology firm billed for medically unnecessary radiation treatments.

The International Olympic Committee is tapping GE Healthcare’s Centricity Practice Solution as the official electronic health record for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. GE executives announced the win on March 2 at HIMSS16 in Las Vegas. The IOC has used GE’s EMR platform for the last two Olympic Games in London and Sochi. [Also: See our big gallery of HIMSS16 photos] However, Rio 2016 marks the first time all athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games will have their health interactions managed by an EMR, IOC officials said. “The gold medal of medical services is something integrated and comprehensive – a total package,” Richard Budgett, MD, IOC medical and scientific director said in a press statement. “Adding access to an electronic medical record is key to our drive towards the prevention of injury.” Also, EMR data will be analyzed to spot patterns and provide insights for future Games planning. Twitter: @HealthITNews This story is part of our ongoing coverage of the HIMSS16 conference. Follow our live blog for real-time updates, and visit Destination HIMSS16 for a full rundown of our reporting from the show. For a selection of some of the best social media posts of the show, visit our Trending at #HIMSS16 hub.

Christopher Harle will work with University of Florida researchers to develop software to help patients better understand what they are granting access to when they approve use of their electronic health records for research purposes.

The Mississippi Division of Medicaid is being touted as the first Medicaid agency in the country to send and receive clinical data in real-time with a health system using an Epic electronic health record. The exchange, powered by data analytics company MedeAnalytics, was with the University of Mississippi Medical Center, in Jackson, the state's biggest Medicaid provider. "Giving doctors and nurses access to important information such as medications, diagnoses and allergies ensures that they can make the best care decisions for Medicaid patients," said John Showalter, MD, chief health information officer of UMMC, in a statement. [Also: Judy Faulkner says 'Good software is art'] MedeAnalytics first helped the Mississippi Division of Medicaid with the groundwork by creating an enterprise master patient index and single patient identifier in 2014. To do so, the company analyzed and de-duplicated records from 2.3 million Medicaid beneficiaries. The medical records had been collected over more than a decade. Today, the Medicaid division and UMMC can share Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture patient summaries through UMMC's Epic EHR. MedeAnalytics expects it will receive about 3,500 clinical inquiries per day from UMMC. [Like Healthcare IT News on Facebook] MedeAnalytics points to several benefits of real-time access, including emergency room care due to a more complete patient record, improved case management since Medicaid utilization and remaining benefits are able to be quickly accessed, and better care management since immunization records and alerts help ensure more up-to-date care. Twitter: @HealthITNews

Movement hopes the analytics access will encourage entrepreneurs to use health data to improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths.

Nominations period open for one more week as the federal agency looks to tackle concerns over a string of high-profile breaches.

LAS VEGAS – IBM on Wednesday introduced the SleepHealth app designed for iPhone and Apple Watch and the SleepHealth Mobile Study to help identify connections between sleep habits and health outcomes. The SleepHealth study uses the open source ResearchKit designed by Apple to make it easier for participants to complete tasks and submit surveys from the app. SleepHealth is the first ResearchKit study to run on Watson Health Cloud. IBM announced the initiative at HIMSS16. It was close to a year ago when the computing giant launched Watson Health Cloud at HIMSS15. The SleepHealth app "One of our goals at IBM Watson Health is to eliminate silos that hinder collaboration between researchers, patients and clinicians, and create new opportunities for these communities to share and learn from one another," said Kyu Rhee, MD, chief health officer for Watson Health. As he sees it, sleep is an under-appreciated factor when it comes to staying well. “Now that data is in a digital format that can be leveraged and screened and analyzed, this is where tools in this era of cognitive technology, like Watson, can actually make sense of the data,” Kyu said. Watson, he said, can read 8 million pages a second.” “To have Watson at your side, is a powerful tool that can deliver what I would consider augmented intelligence,” Kyu added. [Also: See photos from Day 2 of HIMSS16] The SleepHealth app taps into Apple Watch's heart rate monitor to detect when a subject falls asleep before gathering movement data with the onboard accelerometer and gyroscope, according to a report on Apple insider. For users running iOS 9.3 the app will make use of Apple's Night Shift feature, which shifts an iPhone or iPad's display color temperature toward the warm end of the spectrum to help ease physiological side effects of being exposed to cool blue light. Chronic insomnia affects more than 10 percent of Americans, and 25 million suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The SleepHealth study will explore the connections between sleep quality and daytime activities, alertness, productivity, general health and medical conditions. Data contributed by participants will be stored on the Watson Health Cloud, making it possible for researchers to conduct extensive analysis to uncover patterns and connections in the data, Once it has completed several years of data collection, the research team expects to develop personalized and public health interventions for a variety of sleep-related health issues. Twitter: @HealthITNews This story is part of our ongoing coverage of the HIMSS16 conference. Follow our live blog for real-time updates, and visit Destination HIMSS16 for a full rundown of our reporting from the show. For a selection of some of the best social media posts of the show, visit our Trending at #HIMSS16 hub.

In a frank conversation with Healthcare IT News, the Epic CEO says her company gets a bad rap. But the numbers show it more than stacks up.