One in ten hospitals and other health systems said that they have had the greatest difficulty in reducing healthcare supply chain costs as part of their cost transformation strategy.
Twelve percent of...
An FHIR-based pharmacy care coordination platform, known as the Pharmacist eCare Plan (PeCP), is up and running in all 50 states.
The PeCP platform was selected by the Office of the National...
Epic is adding a clinical decision support application for cancer treatment to its App Orchard marketplace for third-party apps.
The new application, Flatiron Assist, provides support to oncologists...
Nuance Communications has taken the top spot for end-to-end coding, computer-assisted coding (CAC), and health information management (HIM) solution vendors among inpatient hospitals and health system...
While two-thirds of hospital administrators currently tie clinical supply chain integration initiatives to their budget, only 5 percent said clinical integration was their supply chain department's...
Cumberland, a healthcare consulting and services firm, has joined the MediLedger Project, an initiative of Chronicled to use healthcare blockchain to improve drug supply chain networks.
Chronicled is...
Tennessee-based Greeneville Community Hospital East is deploying a telehealth ICU platform for its intensive care unit (ICU).
Greeneville Community Hospital East, part of the Ballard Health system, is...
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...
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...
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....
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released revised draft guidance on how it proposes to regulate clinical decision support software, after facing industry criticism of its 2017 draft...
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...
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...
Health Level Seven International (HL7) and CAQH CORE are working together to improve interoperability between healthcare administrative and clinical systems.
The two organizations...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Center for Medical Interoperability (C4MI) has launched an industry-wide program to verify medical device interoperability.
The program, called C4MI Verified, is designed to accelerate the...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has inked a cooperative agreement with The Sequoia Project to support nationwide healthcare interoperability.
The Sequoia...