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By Bernie Monegain | 05:12 pm | September 29, 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded $347 million to 16 national, regional or state hospital associations, quality improvement organizations and health systems to continue efforts in reducing hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.
By Mike Miliard | 04:50 pm | September 29, 2016
Security expert says these types of attacks are likely to become more common. EHRs and other hospital IT systems could face dramatic new risks.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:27 pm | September 29, 2016
Healthcare organizations are using electronic health records, patient portals, patient engagement systems and telemedicine tech to boost specific styles of population health initiatives, HIMSS Analytics said.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:13 pm | September 29, 2016
Experts discuss gender disparities, the need for transparency and the promise of better collaboration among women in HIT.
By Mike Miliard | 11:52 am | September 29, 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, choosing from more than 80 submissions, has awarded two prizes for new designs of the medical bill.
By Bernie Monegain | 06:48 am | September 29, 2016
The computer science major believes the world needs more women technologists.
05:43 pm | September 28, 2016
The health insurer also said it will integrate Apple’s device with its own care management and wellness tools, and arm 50,000 of its own employees with Apple’s device. 
By Bill Siwicki | 02:58 pm | September 28, 2016
Seven organizations will split the funds in multiple efforts to use health IT for projects ranging from a patient-centered data model to interoperable, bi-directional behavioral health data exchange.
By Jessica Davis | 01:25 pm | September 28, 2016
In response to the Zika outbreak, University of Arizona's College of Public health researchers and the UA Bio Computing Facility have released a crowd-sourcing mobile app to track the disease and help detect outbreaks.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:15 pm | September 28, 2016
Watson-based supercomputing cloud service integrates various data types and applies artificial intelligence to decision making.