A hacker with low skill level could gain control of connected cardiology devices made by Change Healthcare, warned an ICS-CERT advisory.
“Insecure file permissions in the default installation...
As organizations ponder complying with HHS proposed interoperability rules, they should consider moving beyond regulatory requirements to realize greater healthcare interoperability, advised a new...
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...
The Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) poor health information management of medical record scanning has produced a paper record backlog of 600,000 documents, or a stack of paper more...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class 1 recall (most serious) for a faulty component of the Edwards SAPIEN 3 transcatheter heart valve system, following reports of 17 injuries and...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) teamed with chief information officers and chief medical officers from other pediatric healthcare organizations to simplify the adolescent proxy process...
There are four main hurdles regarding health data interoperability, Patrick Getzen, senior vice president and chief data and analytics officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC),...
Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center is piloting a project to increase health data exchange between hospitals and emergency medical services, the Columbus-Dispatch reported August...
IT interoperability problems were cited as the top technology frustration among 600 non-hospital healthcare providers recently surveyed by Updox.
Other technology frustrations named by...
Partners HealthCare will contribute its health IT infrastructure, data, and clinical expertise to a partnership with Fujifilm SonoSite to develop AI-powered portable ultrasound devices for emergency...
Half of hospitals plan to invest in robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) for non-clinical uses by 2021, a recent survey of 115 hospital leaders by Sage Growth Partners and...
IBM is teaming with Chainyard to launch a blockchain network to boost supply chain management for pharmaceutical companies, as well as firms in other industries.
The new blockchain network, called...
CMS unveiled on July 30 a new pilot program called Data at the Point of Care (DPC), which is based on an industry-standard API designed to give clinicians easier access to a patient’s health...
University of California, Berkeley, has received a five-year, $47 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use brain imaging in the Alzheimer's Association's...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center successfully tested the integration of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical trials screening system into the clinical workflow at a busy...
Including unique device identifiers (UDIs) on insurance claim forms will improve medical device safety, argued Ben Moscovitch, project director for health information technology at Pew.
By include...
OSF Healthcare and the University of Illinois (UoI) at Urbana-Champaign are kicking in $50 million to their Jump ARCHES partnership to fund healthcare IoT applied research.
The money will go toward...
A disturbing 91 percent of hospital boards rely entirely on consultants for healthcare IT strategy and advice, rather than on the healthcare tech expertise of trustees, a poll of 494 C-suite hospital...
Global venture capital (VC) firms invested more money in fewer digital health deals in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period last year, according to the latest stats from Mercom Capital...
Siemens Healthineers is ponying up $133 million in medical imaging equipment and supporting health IT infrastructure to the University of Missouri (UM) System’s new NextGen Precision Health...
