Bill Siwicki

With new APIs, IT departments at health systems and hospitals can extend imaging and imaging data into other applications such as population health or reporting tools, the vendor says.

NTT announced at HIMSS17 it is expanding its relationship with Oracle to include cloud capabilities for Oracle’s healthcare analytics platform.

While digitization creates efficiency, health data is exposed to more people, in more places and on more devices, including smartphones, laptops and Internet of Things devices, notes the Thales report.

The goal of the new relationship, announced at HIMSS17, is to help hospitals and health systems simplify and modernize their information output infrastructures, the vendors say.

The new company unveiled MIRA, a mobile app designed to improve EHR usability and performance, and SIYA, a care management workflow system for payers, providers and patients.

The new service is designed to help hospital CIOs make the best use of their internal Epic resources by giving physicians and nurses immediate access to a pool of Epic IT specialists for tier-one support.

Overwatch is a combination of live and technology-driven tech support that constantly monitors the health of the Amplion Alert system and facilitates remote troubleshooting.

The new backup service offering enables healthcare organizations to quickly, easily and securely use the cloud to protect and recover mission-critical application data, the vendors said.

The new system is designed to help providers handle the complexity of managing and modeling payer contracts while ensuring accurate payment from claim creation through the appeal process.

It is expanding its Healthcare Security Awareness Training Program to include additional ransomware training to help combat the ever-changing cybersecurity and education challenges unique to healthcare.