Interoperability

The cybercriminal group ‘Tsar Team’ hacked the World Anti-Doping Agency’s database and leaked confidential records of Rio 2016 athletes - including Serena Williams and Simone Biles.

CEO Judy Faulkner discussed her company’s research and development totals for the first time. She also said Epic’s spending outpaces rivals Allscripts, athenahealth and Cerner in R&D. 

Texas Health Resources has gone live with a health information exchange connecting the regions of North, South and West Texas, joining 32 other healthcare organizations in the Lone Star State.

By combining Dragon Medical and Imprivata Cortext, the companies can offer a speaker-adaptive engine, custom vocabularies, built-in visualization, voice navigation and other features.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second largest U.S municipal system, is growing its population health management platform with Cerner’s HealtheIntent technology.

Healthcare organizations need to implement high-end network monitoring and anomaly detection, according to Core Security general manager Chris Sullivan.

The hospital appointed a Vice President of Care Coordination and Integration, Christy Kaplan, and involved the work of clinicians, including Susan Tolin, to tie together distinct departments and ensure that patients are working with the right care teams.

Penn Medicine associate CIO John Donohue shares insights and obstacles from the academic medical centers work on telehealth thus far. 

The industry association calls on CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt to focus on the key issues of data sharing and interoperability and to reduce the need for multiple reports from IT systems.

The West Virginia and Kentucky health system announced a cyberattack over the weekend, but has yet to determine the cause. The situation is testing just how long a hospital can survive when clinicians and operations are running on pencil and paper.