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By Bernie Monegain | 11:29 am | September 09, 2015
Patient engagement just got a boost with GetWellNetwork's acquisition of San Diego-based Skylight Healthcare Systems. Both companies describe themselves as early pioneers in interactive patient care.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:33 am | September 09, 2015
Richard Clarke, cybersecurity expert and former national security advisor to three U.S. presidents, will keynote the HIMSS Media and Healthcare IT News Privacy & Security Forum Dec. 1-3 in Boston.
By Jack McCarthy | 09:26 am | September 09, 2015
Security specialists bring to market new cloud services to secure PHI and PII for Salesforce users.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:04 am | September 09, 2015
HIMSS officials plan to share the three "asks" with Congress during National Health IT Week in early October.
By Sherree Geyer | 07:00 am | September 09, 2015
Kaiser Permanente engages 45 percent of its more than 9 million members through online portals, which offer EHR access and secure physician-patient email. But not all providers are able to demonstrate such healthy numbers.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:44 am | September 08, 2015
If only the care team had talked among themselves, the crises surrounding a patient eventually diagnosed with Ebola at a Texas Health Resources hospital last year might have been averted, a panel of experts called in to review the case has concluded.
By Michelle Ronan Noteboom | 11:08 am | September 08, 2015
Does anyone remember the Clapper? Y'know: "Clap on! (clap, clap) Clap Off! (clap, clap)." Our columnist points out that some electronic health records, unfortunately, have more in common with that old technology than one might think.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:27 am | September 08, 2015
Two Geisinger researchers, leading a large team of investigators, have been awarded more than $3.5 million as part of a national effort to better understand the genetic basis of disease. The research is aimed at tailoring medical based on patients' genetic makeup.
By Tom Sullivan | 08:51 am | September 08, 2015
Even though it has felt, perhaps, as if the opposite was true for several years, hospitals and medical practices are captains of their own ICD-10 ships -- a fact that's more apparent now, literally days from shore, than ever before.
By Tom Sullivan | 01:53 pm | September 04, 2015
As Labor Day weekend arrives, we look back on the hottest articles of the warmest season. Healthcare IT News' most popular looked at analytics, ICD-10, emerging technologies and other trends shaking up the industry.