Cloud Computing

The electronic health record maker has built out its suite to enable integration with third-party apps and competing EHR systems, its chief executive said. 

athenahealth’s CEO said that hospital executives should stop tolerating software that users hate and, instead, demand a new set of core competencies from their technology vendors. And he pointed to Waze, Google and Kayak as examples to emulate. 

The startup said it will use the funding to strengthen its OncologyCloud. 

The new extension to its HRM platform enables hospital executives to better serve patient populations, and identify market opportunities, CEO Brad Bostic said. 

After a successful year-long telemedicine program, Children’s Mercy informatics director Richard Stroup seized the opportunity to open the cloud-based app up to other hospitals. Seattle Children’s is already using it and Cincinnati is next.

Christiana Care CISO Anahi Santiago demands cloud vendors show her ISO or HITRUST certification, a review of SOC II as well as policies and procedures, summaries of penetration and vulnerability assessment and more.

The technology, known as Hugo, empowers patients to compile data from multiple EHRs and synchronize them with a research database. 

The exhibit area will feature more than 60 companies demonstrating early tools with the potential to disrupt or change the healthcare industry. 

Building on its GE Health Cloud, the company is enabling care teams to store, view, analyze and share images in ways they could not before storage and compute power were available in the cloud.

Dignity Health chief information officer Deanna Wise was once hesitant of putting health data in the cloud. Now she’s an outspoken proponent.