Bernie Monegain

Watson, IBM's supercomputing brainchild, will soon have its own pied-à-terre across the pond.

Looking into its crystal ball – or perhaps digital spreadsheets – PiperJaffray analysts see big plays in the RCM market. That potential is so large, in fact, that Cerner alone has a $40 billion opportunity, and it ranks fifth in market share.

The law firm posted a new report that includes its 7-point plan to tighten security, avoid breaches, and respond when data gets compromised.

UH CMIO Jeffrey Sunshine said that deploying an interoperability tool and new modules will help the hospital to create a single patient record physicians can access at the point of care.

The work will help determine how effective Philips IntelliSite whole slide imaging can be in detecting disease, streamlining pathology workflows and lowering costs. 

Researchers will use the software to crowdsource data that helps physicians better understand how to use fever as a tool to improve medical diagnoses.  

Caleb Anderson says changing payment models are likely to make hospital executives rethink revenue cycles, and consider outsourcing services to Cerner or one of its competitors, including athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Conifer and others.

The FBI is reportedly investigating the latest in series of healthcare cyberattacks but there’s no definitive word yet on whether the malicious code is ransomware or not.

The PC maker also signed an agreement to enable the Dubai Health Authority to make an insurance program work with new EHR.

NTT Data announced today it has agreed to buy computer giant Dell's IT service operations for $3.