EHR

The HCI Group, which works with major providers on end-to-end implementation of electronic health record systems, offering support for Epic, Cerner and others, will be acquired by Tech Mahindra in a $110 million deal.

Mercy Technology Services, the IT arm of the Catholic health system, is partnering with Tahoe Forest Health System to deploy an Epic electronic health record system at its locations in California and Nevada.

The rollout expands on Epic's initial deployment at CVS MinuteClinics, and will enable better care coordination for rare and complex conditions.

The Government Accountability Office determined in an investigation that Health and Human Services has not measured whether its efforts are working and lacks a comprehensive plan for doing so.

On Feb. 28, Amazon's S3 cloud-based service experienced outages that caused a number of major websites and apps – including many across healthcare – to stop working optimally.

Currently, 60 percent of healthcare organizations worldwide have introduced IoT into their facilities, with nearly two-thirds of those using it for monitoring and maintenance.

The winning teams put strategies such as open APIs to work enabling secure and straightforward movement of patient data.

The platform enables oncologists to identify evidence-based treatment regimens for patients through integration of NantHealth’s eviti platform and Allscripts’ Sunrise EHR.

The two companies seek to offer highly secure, accessible monitoring for those with the disease as the Internet of Things changes the healthcare industry.

The new system delivers optimized EHR data for physicians that is easy to digest and promotes new levels of clinical insights, the vendor says.