The American Medical Association (AMA) and student-run biotech incubator Sling Health are expanding their joint efforts to include physicians in health IT innovation to improve clinical workflows and patient care.
The two organizations are compiling insights from physicians in their clinical problem database, which will become a feature on the...
Reporting is and will remain the “killer app” for healthcare analytics, according to a new report by Chilmark.
Cost, quality, and utilization reports and dashboards are widely used in the healthcare industry, the report noted.
Currently, the use of analytics to support value-based care is the primary driver of analytics adoption,...
The creation of new health IT companies will increase over the next two years, according to a survey of more than 240 healthcare leaders by VC firm Venrock.
A full 79 percent of respondents said health IT company creation would increase, 14 percent said it would stay the same, and 8 percent thought it would decrease.
Twenty-two percent of...
Monitoring of networks, endpoints, and cloud assets is a continuing cybersecurity challenge for many healthcare organizations, according to CynergisTek’s 2019 annual report.
This is bad news because the attack surface at healthcare organizations is rapidly expanding as more systems and devices access their networks, it noted.
Particularly...
Artificial intelligence and blockchain are set to ignite the care coordination software market, predicted Frost & Sullivan in a new report.
Aided by these advanced technologies, the market is expected to witness significant traction from payers, hospitals, and physician practices across the United States. This should drive the healthcare...
Nearly all hospitals provided patients with the ability to electronically view and download their health information in 2017, but fewer than one-quarter of their patients activated access to their patient portal, according to the ONC Data Brief for April.
The percentage of hospitals providing patients with the ability to view, download, and...
Google’s cloud-based healthcare API, designed to improve health data interoperability, is now in beta.
Google said its cloud-based healthcare API offers a managed solution for storing and accessing health data in Google Cloud platform, providing a link between healthcare systems and applications hosted on Google Cloud.
An API allows...
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is providing a free healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) software platform to its members to encourage them to build, share, adapt, and validate AI algorithms.
ACR intends the platform, called ACR AI-LAB, to help members and other radiologists learn the basics of healthcare AI and use those skill in...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not implemented four high-priority health IT recommendations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), according to a recent report by the government watchdog.
The four recommendations focus on improving healthcare data security at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), strengthening...
More than 30 organizations are joining together in an initiative led by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) to develop standards and best practices for healthcare artificial intelligence (AI).
The group will serve as a platform for stakeholders from healthcare and high-tech industries to create common terminology and best practices for...
The University of South Carolina has opened an innovation lab in downtown Columbia to tackle healthcare problems through health IT innovation, artificial intelligence, and robotics research.
The university teamed with Siemens Healthineers to build the Innovation Think Tank (ITT) Lab, one of a number of ITT labs Siemens has opened around the...
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is updating the health IT infrastructure at its military treatment facilities to prepare for MHS GENESIS EHR system implementation because of problems with a pilot deployment at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington.
As a result of lessons learned at Fairchild, the Air Force is investing in network upgrades at least six...
Medical device manufacturers are not doing enough to secure legacy devices, argued the American Hospital Association (AHA) in a recent letter to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA).
AHA observed that hospitals and other healthcare providers may have tens of thousands of connected medical devices from hundreds of different manufacturers in their...
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) history of IT management problems could jeopardize its $10 billion EHR modernization program, warned Carol Harris, director of IT management at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The VA has failed to fully implement more than half of GAO’s recommendations designed to fix problems...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a proposed regulatory framework for medical devices that use artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.
The agency is seeking industry feedback on the proposal, with the goal of issuing a draft guidance based on the feedback.
“Our approach will focus on the continually-evolving nature of...
Healthcare was the leading industry for cyberattacks and data breaches last year, making up 41 percent of cyber incidents tracked by specialty insurer Beazley.
The financial services industry was in a distant second place, making up 20 percent of data breaches and cyberattacks, followed by education with 10 percent and professional services with 7...
Hospitals and other providers should embrace healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) tools that provide clinical decision support, diagnostic imaging analysis, patient monitoring, and process automation to improve efficiency, advised the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in a new report.
Providers should also take advantage of the evolution toward...
Vendors are developing and selling proprietary IT products and services that do not interoperate, creating a significant healthcare interoperability problem, testified LifePoint Health Chief Medical Informatics Officer Christopher Rehm before a March 26 hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
To address the...
The use of personal mobile devices in healthcare highlights the need for organizations to implement a robust healthcare BYOD policy.
According to a just released survey of employees and employers by WorkJam, two-thirds of healthcare workers said they would be like to use their personal mobile devices to access information about scheduling changes...
The healthcare industry ranks fifth for network security when compared to other major U.S industries, according to 2019 Healthcare Cybersecurity Report by SecurityScorecard.
This was the strongest showing for healthcare in the six security categories the report examined: overall security, application security, domain name system (DNS) health,...
