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The apps will be evaluated in 10 different primary and specialty care settings.

While there are challenges to fully utilizing FHIR, the specification will support workflows and provider experience between the organizations and multiple EHRs, Halamka said at HL7’s DevDays.

The HIMSS Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum showed that, even if healthcare still lags behind other industries in analytics prowess, it can (and probably will) make up a lot of ground in a short time.

A brief look at what hospitals should know about hundreds of patents tech giants have filed relative to health IT.

One new policy deems drug shortages an urgent public health crisis and seeks to have manufacturing sites become critical infrastructure.

Adrian Zai, MD, offers advice to health systems looking to position themselves for success in the world of accountable care.

NHS unit is switching from Meditech to deploy what it describes as a EPR, rather than an electronic health record.

At Radiology Imaging Solutions, the cost per study has been cut by more than 70 percent, productivity has increased by 400 percent, and report turnaround time has decreased by more than 50 percent thanks to health IT.

As many as 80 percent of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment, which is why Halifax has brought together this triumvirate of health IT for prescriptive alerts.

The center, called Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation, will convene experts across the healthcare and wellness industries to incubate new ideas, officials say.