Rick Cook

It appears that FHIR is about to blaze through healthcare. At HIMSS15, HL7 will be demonstrating the latest version of its next-generation standards framework for healthcare.

Software giant aims to help clinicians adjust to changing landscape with analytics, cloud and mobile software tools.

At HIMSS15, Mitre will be making presentations on a range of topics including analytics, preventing fraud, improving patient safety and increasing the accuracy of medication ordering.

Much the way telecommunications providers once struggled with the home stretch of connectivity, healthcare organizations today are grappling with compliance, disclosure policies and security.

Disaster recovery traditionally hasn't had a very high priority in healthcare IT. Everyone knew it was important, but it came far down the list of spending priorities. That's changed significantly in the past five years.

As the volume and variety of medical images increases, providers are looking for better ways to store and access them. Vendor neutral archives are fast finding favor -- but in many respects the jury is still out on just what a VNA is and what it should offer.