Application Development

ONC Ponies Up Close to $2M for Healthcare Interoperability Work

September 11, 2019 - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded close to $2 million to two organizations in order to fund their work in improving healthcare interoperability. The grants are being made under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology (LEAP in Health IT) program, which is...


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CommonHealth Enables Android Users to Share EHR with Health Apps

by Fred Donovan

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is piloting CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit service designed to enable people to securely collect their electronic health record (EHR) data...

SAP Launches Accelerator Program with 7 Health IT Startups

by Fred Donovan

SAP unveiled this week its healthcare-focused accelerator program at SAP.iO Foundry New York with the selection of seven health IT startups. SAP.iO will provide the startups access to SAP technology...

UH Gets $1M Grant for App to Track Discharged Patients’ Opioid Use

by Fred Donovan

Cleveland-based University Hospitals (UH) has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge to develop an app that tracks a patient’s opioid use after leaving the...

UPMC’s Cloud-Based OS Boosts Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing in a cloud-based healthcare operating system (hcOS) to improve healthcare interoperability and break down data silos.   The...

Cloud-based Healthcare App Development Supports Infrastructure Growth

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The evolution of healthcare IT still poses challenges for organizations going through digital transformations. As applications and continue to develop, organizations are looking to new methods and...

Potential for Open Source for Health IT Software Development

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Open source development supports health IT software innovation as healthcare technology vendors and provider organizations work on improving the same source code. “Open source is a methodology...

Exploring Low-Code, Outsourcing for Healthcare App Development

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare app development is a critical IT infrastructure step, but choosing how to handle the development process depends on how many apps will be developed, what they will be used for, and what IT...

Top 3 Ways to Succeed with Healthcare IoT, Mobile Device Strategies

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations looking to enable more effective workflows and speedier access to data are searching for mobile device strategies that will allow them to harness the power of the Internet of...

APIs Are the “Missing Piece” for Healthcare App Interoperability  

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare app interoperability is not a new challenge for healthcare organizations. Over the past several years organizations have had trouble connecting their health IT tools to their EHRs. The...

Selecting a Healthcare Mobile App Development Platform

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are creating more custom mobile apps for patients and clinicians and making mobile app development platforms a priority. Developing secure, functional apps quickly requires a...

Microsoft, Apple, Google Secure HIT Infrastructure Patents

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Google, Microsoft, and Apple continue their efforts to break into the HIT infrastructure industry as they see value in securing patents for healthcare-oriented technology. Kalorama Information...

Healthcare API Management Supports Applications Innovation

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations deal with several application programming interfaces (APIs) when it comes to building apps and sharing data. Organizations going through digital transformations need to manage...

Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition Impacts Healthcare Open Source Dev

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, the web-based open source hosting service. Many healthcare organizations use GitHub for health IT related source code, so the acquisition could impact how...

How DevOps Can Impact Healthcare IT Infrastructure

by Bill Kleyman

I’ve really been enjoying diving into the world of DevOps. More specifically, I’ve had the chance to speak with leading healthcare providers to better understand how and where they’re...

Kubernetes-as-a-Service Supports Less Complex Container Management

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations going through digital transformations are leveraging containers to enhance their HIT infrastructure as a way to manage applications. The potential introduction of...

Healthcare Blockchain Improves EHRs, Business Process Management

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare blockchain continues to grow, more vendors are releasing tools featuring the technology. Most recently, Alternate Healthcare and Appian with Luxoft have released blockchain tools for the...

Healthcare Applications to Benefit from OCI Container Standard

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) announced its Distribution Specification project to standardize container image distribution based on the specification for the Docker Registry HTTO API V2 protocol....

Healthcare Mobile App Usability Demands Efficient Development

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare mobile apps are becoming more popular as users adjust to the flexibility and easy access mobile tools offer. Mobility can improve workflow and allow clinicians to spend more time engaging...

How Healthcare Low Code App Development Increases Flexibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare entities are looking to become more agile and developing applications is part of that process. Healthcare low code app development platforms are used by developers to build applications...