Bill Siwicki

Don’t leave it up to tech vendors to drive the next phase of integrated data that gets channeled between doctors, payers, providers and patients.

The ability to view information on a patient's 10 previous ED visits across different health systems saved on unneeded imaging tests and prevented the prescription of narcotics, one physician said.

Hospitals, consultants and tech vendors explain what’s happening now and where biometrics are headed.

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare sought to motivate smokers to get screened and used cloud-based analytics and marketing technology to successfully target them.

The open source machine learning technology is applied to CT scans and can assist physicians in better analyzing lung cancer, potentially saving lives.

The department of emergency medicine at the University of Maryland uses imaging-oriented technology as a virtual specialist in the ER.

Some 4,000 physician and nurse candidates have been entered into the Chicago hospital's hiring system, with a nearly 90 percent completion rate, the director of talent acquisition says.

Efficiencies gained have allowed the Hill Physicians Medical Group to increase the number of patient charts collected for risk adjustment efforts by more than 200 percent.

Experts say emerging tools could become as important to precision medicine as HTML is to the web.

On the first anniversary of the state's mandate, 51 percent of prescribers in the state are fighting the opioid crisis by using electronic prescription for controlled substances.