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...
Hospitals and other providers should embrace healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) tools that provide clinical decision support, diagnostic imaging analysis, patient monitoring, and process...
Scripps Health has turned to unified communications provider Avaya to bring its diverse systems into a comprehensive health IT integration platform.
Scripps Health chose the Avaya IX Attendant...
In the Trump administration’s FY 2020 budget request, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to cut ONC’s budget by 28 percent, despite its heavy workload in...
Dutch health technology behemoth Philips has agreed to buy U.S.-based Carestream Health’s medical imaging IT unit for an undisclosed consideration.
Carestream’s unit provides medical...
Failure would likely result from a hasty EHR integration effort, warned Kevin Tabb, president and CEO of Beth Israel (BI) Lahey Health, which was recently formed from the merger of Beth Israel...
Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) said the $10 billion price tag and the 10-year timeline for implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ EHR modernization program...
CAMBRIDGE—Healthcare blockchain currently has three good use cases — physician credentialing, data integrity, and data sharing consent — observed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is restructuring its medical treatment facilities (MTFs), including transferring MTF administration and management from the military departments to the Defense Health...
The precision medical imaging market is forecast by Frost & Sullivan to grow from $120 million in 2017 to over $8 billion by 2027.
Technology advances such as clinical decision support software,...
Aging healthcare IT infrastructure at VA facilities requires more investment in preparation for deployment of new VA EHR platform, VA General Counsel and Acting Deputy Secretary James Byrne told a...
Many virtual care solution do not integrate with electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of healthcare organizations by virtual care software provider Zipnosis.
In fact, close to half...
Poor input-output (I/O) performance could have a negative effect on healthcare big data analytics, warned Condusiv Technologies CEO James D’Arezzo.
SQL databases in particular are a factor in...
Policies and standards should be developed to ensure artificial intelligence is safely incorporated into clinical decision support (CDS) systems, recommended a white paper from the Duke-Margolis Center...
The Healthcare IT segment accounted for about one-half of the healthcare and pharmaceutical IT industry’s aggregate volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) last year, according to a new...
One-third of institutional investors believe that blockchain technology will have the biggest impact on the healthcare industry, according to a survey by the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)...
Princeton researchers have found that machine learning can be used to improve treatment and reduce lab testing for patients in intensive care units (ICUs).
The researchers used data from more...
Consumers believe that technology companies not currently in the healthcare industry could be disruptive by offering new healthcare technology and other innovations to solve some of the...
The US government shutdown, which is in its fourth week, is likely to further delay an ONC health IT rule being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), observed AMIA Vice President...
The Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) has cancelled its monthly meeting, scheduled for Jan. 23, due to the US government shutdown, reported Politico.
HITAC was established in 2017 under the 21st...
