Oracle, which provides cloud computing services to Adventist Health, Emblem Health, Glens Falls Hospital, and other healthcare organizations, is expanding its cloud infrastructure business by hiring close to 2,000 employees.
The new hires will support Oracle’s expanding infrastructure customer base and come as the company rolls out new...
Several major radiologists’ societies recently called for development of ethical codes of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, warning against the use of radiology data and algorithms solely for financial gain.
In a joint statement, the societies also warned that the use of AI in radiology can increase the...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding a public advisory committee meeting next month with experts and the public to examine the safety of materials used in medical devices, the agency announced this week.
Materials used in today’s medical devices, such as metal, plastic, silicone, animal-derived products, or some combination of...
Hospital networks and medical devices are at risk from URGENT/11 vulnerabilities that lurk in their IPnet network connection, warned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week.
The vulnerabilities were discovered by security firm Armis, which warned that they reside in IPnet, VxWorks’ TCP/IP stack, and impact versions of the...
Google Cloud is partnering with Meditech to offer its electronic health record (EHR) system through Google’s public cloud platform.
As a result of this partnership, Meditech’s Expanse EHR platform will be one of the first available on Google Cloud, according to a Meditech release.
The agreement with Google Cloud extends to application...
Consumers are willing to use blockchain-based tokens for a variety of applications, including using them to control access to their electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers by KPMG.
In addition, blockchain-based tokenization can be used to track, correlate, and coordinate the identity of healthcare providers...
The United States needs to develop interoperable IT infrastructure that will facilitate the integration of healthcare and social care, advised a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
To accomplish this goal, the report recommended that the federal government establish a 21st century social care...
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sent a letter Sept. 23 to TridentUSA seeking information about the storage of medical images on unsecured picture archiving and communication system (PACS) servers by its MobilexUSA subsidiary.
Warner cited a report about a data breach that left more than 16 million medical images exposed on PACS servers with no...
The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is looking for industry input about a platform that enables patients to access and aggregate their electronic health information and supports secure messaging between patients and providers.
The collaborative administers the state’s public health information exchange known as the Statewide Health...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released revised draft guidance on how it proposes to regulate clinical decision support software, after facing industry criticism of its 2017 draft guidance.
The FDA is focusing on a risk-based approach to clinical decision support (CDS) software based on the risk to patients if the software...
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) along with six other healthcare organizations are warning that the proposed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) information blocking rule could jeopardize healthcare interoperability efforts by increasing health data privacy risks.
In a...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded $4.6 million to the University of California San Diego to build IT infrastructure and tools to add human neuroelectromagnetic brain imaging to the Neuroelectromagnetic Data Archive and Tools Resource (NEMAR).
The NEMAR project is part of the public-private BRAIN initiative funded by the...
Expanding access to broadband internet is necessary for rural areas to benefit from telehealth services, argued Karen Rheuban, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Telehealth.
In a Virginia Mercury opinion piece, Rheuban called on federal and state leaders to increase public investment in broadband and...
Medical device vendors, which have traditionally concentrated on developing hardware, are shifting their attention to software, data collection, and data analytics, concluded a new study from Deloitte.
Vendors are changing their focus because the data collected from their hardware – such as surgical equipment, joint replacements, diagnostic...
Health Level Seven International (HL7) and CAQH CORE are working together to improve interoperability between healthcare administrative and clinical systems.
The two organizations currently conduct complementary work to improve the electronic exchange of data across the healthcare industry. This marks their first collaborative...
Columbia University researchers have developed miniaturized medical imaging using a microchip to map the back of the eye to diagnose disease.
The microchip uses interference technology to capture high quality medical images. The researchers have been able to overcome technical obstacles to making such a small-scale imaging device, according to a...
The Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas (CHAD) and the Wyoming Primary Care Association are partnering to establish the Great Plains Health Data Network.
The network is expected to enable healthcare facilities to share records with other providers and patients to access their health data, reported the Jamestown Sun.
The two groups...
New Mexico-based Gila Regional Medical Center has acquired telestroke services equipment that includes a camera and communications link to connect stroke patients in the emergency department with a remote neurologist, the Silver City Daily Press reported.
The equipment was gifted to Gila Regional by the Texas-based St. David’s...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has failed to implement new health IT infrastructure that fully supports the Family Caregiver Program, which is holding up a congressionally mandated expansion of the program, the GAO concluded.
First established in 2011, the Family Caregiver Program provides support and services to family caregivers of...
Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of its centralized blockchain service, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB).
Amazon QLDB is a fully managed service that provides an immutable and cryptographically verifiable ledger for applications that need a trusted authority to provide a permanent record of transactions.
Amazon...
