Your year in health IT

2015 saw cybersecurity lows to analytics advancement highs.

By Heather Caspi • Dec. 10, 2015

Carequality releases its interoperability framework

The Carequality Interoperability Framework enables faster and more uniform data sharing partnerships. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 10, 2015

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Interoperability

Interoperability is a long term-challenge for the healthcare industry, but the Trump administration has big ambitions to improve data sharing and patient access — even though its plans so far have few details.

By Healthcare Dive staff

Practices with NPs, PAs 75% more likely to adopt EHRs, study says

Using data from a large-scale national survey of office-based providers in 2013, ONC also found EHRs are adopted by 76% of practices that employ PAs.

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 10, 2015

MD Revolution completes $23M financing round

The latest financing round brings the total to more than $30 million. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 10, 2015

DirectTrust predicts meaningful use will be phased out in 2016

DirectTrust CEO and President Dr. David Kibbe says 2016 will be a year of "momentous forward movement" in increased adoption of electronic health information exchange. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 9, 2015

Survey: Healthcare IT jobs in demand but employees say salaries low

A survey of 700 health IT employees found that 50% of respondents planned to change jobs in order to get a higher salary. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 8, 2015

Medical scribes demand up alongside standards concerns

While medical scribes may be the fastest growing occupation in the EHR sector and allow physicians to see more patients daily, some worry they have little training or oversight.

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 8, 2015

Cancer center launches Apple Watch pilot program for breast cancer

MD Anderson Cancer Center's program will distribute 30 Apple Watches to breast cancer patients. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 3, 2015

Global digital health market worth $55.3B in 2014, expected to grow

Increasing demand for mobile health technologies, telehealth, and advanced information systems is causing the digital health market to grow. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 3, 2015

Healthcare cyber security market to hit $10.85B worldwide by 2022, study says

Growth of the market is being driven by the increasing number of cyber attacks for abuse of EHRs, social security records, IP theft, and more. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 3, 2015

New device may diagnose stroke in less than 10 minutes

Researchers at Cornell's Baker Institute for Animal Health have developed a tool using a drop of blood to detect a stroke. 

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 3, 2015

IT outsourcing projections for 2016 bring pros, cons

Among many benefits, security poses one of the remaining potential hurdles.

By Heather Caspi • Dec. 2, 2015

AHRQ launches U.S. hospital readmissions database

The National Readmissions Database represents the first all-payer nationwide database that tracks hospital readmissions, which can be used to estimate national readmission rates for all payers and the uninsured.  

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 1, 2015

On top: Healthcare data breaches loom large in first half of 2015

Gemalto, a global digital security company, reports healthcare lost the most data records at 84.4 million.

By Nina Flanagan • Dec. 1, 2015

Cyber risk may negatively affect healthcare credit ratings

A Moody's report finds the threat of cyber risk is of increasing importance to credit analysis.

By Nina Flanagan • Nov. 30, 2015

3D-printed vascular systems allow for pre-op planning

Aneurysms, responsible for almost 500,000 fatalities per year, may now be much more manageable.

By Heather Caspi • Nov. 30, 2015

Will medical practices become 'Uberfied'?

On-demand healthcare offers new business opportunities and unique challenges.

By Nina Flanagan • Nov. 30, 2015

OIG details OCR's PHI protection shortcomings

With oversight being primarily reactive, the Office for Civil Rights could step up measures to prevent breaches of patient health information.

By Heather Caspi • Nov. 20, 2015

HHS, OptumLabs join forces on healthcare research

The partnership will first compare and contrast trends in claims records for healthcare costs purposes.

By Heather Caspi • Nov. 20, 2015

Healthcare CIOs predict industry challenges, priorities for 2016

Security and innovation should be among the top priorities for the coming year, they say.

By Heather Caspi • Nov. 20, 2015

Lack of reimbursement, standards contribute to low telehealth adoption

A new survey spotlights physician reimbursement as a major telehealth roadblock. 

By Nina Flanagan • Nov. 19, 2015

Precision Medicine Initiative sets privacy principles

The initiative will gather health data from a million or more volunteers, creating a unique security challenge. 

By Nina Flanagan • Nov. 19, 2015

AMA sends telemedicine ethics recs back to authors

The proposed guidelines don't clarify medical liability concerns, according to the organization's delegates.

By Nina Flanagan • Nov. 19, 2015

Google Ventures invests $8M in PatientPing to expand services

PatientPing alerts physicians when a patient is admitted to an emergency department. 

By Nina Flanagan • Nov. 19, 2015

Health apps you need to know

With thousands available, the hard part is sifting through the noise.

By Heather Caspi • Nov. 19, 2015