Bill Siwicki

Mostashari, now the chief executive at Aledade, discusses how technology must better address the needs of population health and ACOs, and wages a complaint against many EHR vendors.

Healthcare organizations are using electronic health records, patient portals, patient engagement systems and telemedicine tech to boost specific styles of population health initiatives, HIMSS Analytics said.

Seven organizations will split the funds in multiple efforts to use health IT for projects ranging from a patient-centered data model to interoperable, bi-directional behavioral health data exchange.

The biggest hindrance to progress is that tools like artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning conjure images of sci-fi movies rather than real-world uses. Here’s what one Harvard Medical School expert said needs to happen next.

A prominent MIT healthcare economist explains how Big Data can be misleading and discusses methods for properly studying such information.

The platform, called Unify, is designed to deliver continuous cybersecurity policy enforcement and HIPAA compliance for users, networks and devices.

The organizations announced a collaboration on joint products and services for sharing health data under value-based care models.

Union General spent $50,000 to launch an analytics program that enabled staff to spend more time on delivering care and uncovered best practices that reduced readmissions.

More than half of U.S. consumers with smartphones have shared medical information via the Internet, and that means the time is ripe for developers to ramp up their mobile health tools and distribution efforts.

The program, designed to foster technology innovation in healthcare, aims to harness the industry’s $6.5 billion in start-up funding, the research and consulting giant says.