Bernie Monegain

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has counted 32,000 confirmed cases thus far.

Healthcare merger and acquisition activity was down in the third quarter of 2016. Compared with the second quarter, deal volume fell 11 percent, to 369 transactions, according to HealthcareM&A.com.

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner will be honored this fall with a prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. It’s one of three Distinguished Alumni Awards the Wisconsin Alumni Association will hand out.

The joint work will develop cognitive technologies to discover new uses for existing drugs.

Nationwide health data exchange across networks triples in two months.

FHIR makes list. As do other innovations ranging from better treatment for depression to disappearing stents. Read about all of them here. 

Cyber initiative at the HIMSS Innovation Center in Cleveland meshes security and innovation, officials said.

First the industry must unhook its terrestrial addiction to fee-for-service models.

The company will use a sequencing test developed by the health system to find and target individual mutations within cancer tumors.

Peter Embi, MD, an internationally recognized expert in biomedical informatics, will leave his post as interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate dean for research informatics at Ohio State University’s College of Medicine, to join Regenstrief Institute as CEO.