Tom Sullivan

Texas Republican Sen.Ted Cruz promised during a nighttime speech in his home state that he would kill the Affordable Care Act, "abolish" the Internal Revenue Service, stop amnesty and rebuild the military.

LAS VEGAS -- Mitt Romney ran down the list of Presidential candidates and suggested ways each might change healthcare as president.

Some hospitals have established a command center for triage, a major consultancy is taking the "virtual command center" approach, and a cloud-based EHR vendor is deploying foot soldiers to practices in several states on both U.S. coasts.

Rochester Regional Health System is among the hospitals building a war room for the ICD-10 deadline. A hand-picked squad of Rochester Regional staffers began working closely with each department and provider practice during the last year to assess readiness.

As the industry anxiously and eagerly awaits the ICD-10 deadline, let's take a look at some of the aspects providers are most concerned about now.

ICD-10 has been a long time coming and, now that the deadline is closing in quickly, a steady stream of vendors are unveiling new products to help hospitals with the transition.

Calico, Google X and Google Ventures, all with significant healthcare focus, will become separate units under Alphabet.

Underfunding security is a fairly common practice in the healthcare industry, but CFOs need to recognize how critical it is to provide the appropriate resources for security initiatives and technologies.

With the Office for Civil Rights gearing up to begin auditing providers, the best thing to do is to be prepared.

The healthcare industry is notorious for being slow to adopt IT. A new study indicates that this slowness -- especially for up-and-coming forms of technology -- may hamper business growth.