American Well launches HD telehealth app

The software pings a physician to see if he or she is available, moving on to the next doc within 20 seconds if not. Another 'Uber for healthcare'?

By Julie Henry • May 5, 2015

Healthcare.gov project manager retires

Of four who testified before a congressional committee, Henry Chao was the only one to refute claims that the site rollout was an "abysmal failure."

By Julie Henry • May 5, 2015

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Artificial intelligence

Amid mounting interest and investment in the space, it's clear AI’s applications in healthcare will only continue to grow.

By Healthcare Dive staff

Partners notifies 3,300 patients of data breach

A group of employees received phishing emails and provided information in response. 

By Katie Bo Williams • May 1, 2015

Senate working group: $28B spent subsidizing EHRs not worth the effort

The group will attempt to identify a list of tasks to improve EHR usability. Can they make a genuine impact?

By Heather Caspi • May 1, 2015

What CIOs can learn from Duke's successful Apple HealthKit pilot

The university health system is moving beyond its initial pilot to serve clinics across the system.

By Heather Caspi • April 30, 2015

Former CFO to pay $4.4M for meaningful use fraud

Joe White received almost $800,000 in federal incentive funding in January 2013 for "successful" demonstration of meaningful use.

By Katie Bo Williams • April 30, 2015

UPDATED: Teladoc files for IPO, files antitrust suit against Texas Medical Board

Will the recent decision by the TMB to restrict telemedicine hamper the Dallas-based provider's chances of success?

By Katie Bo Williams • April 30, 2015

Mount Sinai to build new patient referral system

Hundreds of thousands of patients are referred within the Mount Sinai health system each year.

By Julie Henry • April 29, 2015

39K compromised in Seton Healthcare phishing attack

An email from a provider is "four times more likely to be fraudulent than one that is purportedly from a social-media company like Facebook."

By Julie Henry • April 29, 2015

TriCore merges with software vendor Rhodes Group

The new company will offer lab solutions in population health management, lab management and other areas.

By Julie Henry • April 28, 2015

How waived EHR data fees could make interoperability a 'commodity'

Experts note that some vendors' data exchange fee arrangements may still have limitations.

By Heather Caspi • April 23, 2015

LabCorp to offer direct-to-consumer testing

13 states currently prohibit lab testing without a physician order.

By Katie Bo Williams • April 23, 2015

FDA offers $1M grant for EHR data mining

The grant will go to a bidder that can develop "new analytic methodologies" to identify pharmaceutical-related safety issues. 

By Katie Bo Williams • April 23, 2015

Health information exchange between hospitals, outside providers up 23% in 2014

More hospitals are communicating electronically with each other and with ambulatory providers, a new AHA survey says.

By Julie Henry • April 21, 2015

Baystate Health CIO on why providers might be spending money on tech that won't work

Is the health IT industry putting the cart before the horse?

By Katie Bo Williams • April 21, 2015

Kaiser to open health IT campus in Atlanta, creating 900 jobs

Kaiser's electronic health record, HealthConnect, is the largest EHR system in the world that is not government-owned. 

By Julie Henry • April 20, 2015

Cerner, partners enable SMART on FHIR apps

The collaboration aims to facilitate the use of software applications across open platform EHR systems.

By Julie Henry • April 20, 2015

Telehealth funds cut from 21st Century Cures, sources say

Another source suggested that the committee is simply trying to downplay industry expectations. 

By Katie Bo Williams • April 17, 2015

The significant impact of nursing informatics on workflow, productivity

85% of IT personnel believe informatics nurses bring value to the implementation phase of clinical systems processes.

By Heather Caspi • April 16, 2015

Practice Fusion announces two new EHR initiatives

The partnerships offer clinical decision support and clinical trial recruitment.

By Julie Henry • April 16, 2015

What you missed at HIMSS15: The biggest announcements, afterparties and IT buzz

Spoiler alert: Judy Faulkner declined to hit Jonathan Bush in the face with a pie and there was a lot of frustration over the patient engagement change in the MU Stage 3 proposal.

By Katie Bo Williams • April 16, 2015

HIMSS15: Epic to remove data sharing fee

"We're not going to charge for Care Everywhere for at least until 2020," CEO Judy Faulkner said. 

By Katie Bo Williams • April 16, 2015

HIMSS15: The looming IT security threat that 'no one is talking about'

"The end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 presents one of the most far-reaching risks to health data we have seen."

By Katie Bo Williams • April 15, 2015

ONC: 'Information blocking' is a serious obstacle to reform

ONC says providers and developers are knowingly interfering with exchange of health information.

By Julie Henry • April 14, 2015

Partners HealthCare, Samsung sign remote monitoring agreement

The first phase of the partnership will focus on creating chronic disease management tools.

By Katie Bo Williams • April 14, 2015