Bernie Monegain
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Network will employ IBM Watson's cognitive computing skills to help match cancer patients with clinical trials.
Coordination is critical to successfully fending off cybercriminals, Intermountain Healthcare CIO and College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Board Chair Marc Probst told a congressional panel on Wednesday.
Mount Sinai executives describe the project as an expanded and unified network comprising state-of-the-art facilities stretching from the East River to the Hudson River below 34th Street.
Jeffrey Carr, most recently the entrepreneur-in-residence at a startup incubator, has joined Mercy Health as the health system's first chief innovation officer, the health system announced Tuesday.
Heritage, which invests in companies focused on building technologies to address the most pressing challenges in healthcare, beat its original fund target by $20 million and its prior Healthcare Innovation Fund by more than $50 million.
The incident involves a February 2016 postcard sent to consumers of mental health services inviting participation in an upcoming satisfaction survey.
A recent survey from the market research firm has found that that 87 percent of financially struggling hospitals now regret changing their EHR systems due to higher than expected costs, layoffs, declining inpatient revenues, disenfranchised clinicians and doubts over the benefits of switching systems.
MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Washington and Salt Lake City-based data analytics company Health Catalyst joined forces in a shared-risk contract aiming to save $25 million a year while also improving clinical outcomes.
The move could signal the beginnings of a new wave of RCM work in healthcare, a market emphasis that analysts figure is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell is in the hot seat over a laptop reported stolen from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement in Olympia, Washington.