Jack McCarthy

The consultancy’s first report on health IT vendors and technology stalwarts in the healthcare industry ranks them by annual revenue. Other winners include Optum, Siemens, GE Healthcare, Philips and Hewlett-Packard. 

Healthcare and other industries are on the cusp of a new age of enlightened consumers that recognize the value of sharing data to foster innovations otherwise not possible.

The American Medical Association’s latest guidelines clarify doctors responsibilities when tapping into telemedicine technologies and services.

Stamford Podiatry Group notified patients that cybercriminals breached its EHR database for nearly two months and could have accessed personally identifiable information and personal health information.

The analytics vendor combined new capabilities including machine learning to automate the process of finding, stratifying, enrolling and communicating with patients eligible for CCM. 

KCBP analyst Mary Meeker noted that the next wave of big data will be all about leveraging existing infrastructure for both analyst and knowledge workers to improve people’s lives and the ways businesses operate. That includes healthcare organizations. 

For the U.S. to effectively digitize their infrastructure, the National Association of State CIOs said a stable and talented workforce is needed.

Simplified regulations around MACRA meaningful use could address the loss of efficiency and usefulness of electronic health records software to enable more flexibility for the doctors using them, said Shawn Griffin, MD, of Memorial Hermann Physician Network.

Chipmaker said that Lumiata will use the money to drive predictive analytics to improve risk and care management for organizations practicing population health. 

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found mostly positive feedback from both doctors and patients, though there are still some clinicians who prefer to keep their notes from patients.