Cloud Computing

The joint venture of Independence Blue Cross and DaVita HealthCare Partners said it will offer doctors access to athenahealth’s cloud services for analytics, care coordination, risk-stratification.

Disruption is already starting. Hospital and IT vendor executives should should pay close attention to innovations and emerging business and care models, Frost & Sullivan says.

IBM's tech-savvy chief has been instrumental in the company's supercomputing work with Watson, the surprising partnership with Apple to create health apps, and she has boldly proclaimed that cognitive computing is the future of healthcare. 

The industry must move beyond the hype, for starters, but that won’t be easy. Experts discuss the challenges, success stories and technologies of the not-so-distant future.  

The academic medical center also intends to open eight precision medicine centers to advance technologies and measurement tools to improve patient care.

Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.  

The Seattle-based company, which aims to re-engineer how consumers manage their care’ also brought on a vice president of product management to advance its platform.

Hospitals and provider organizations now have to manage business associates that might share data or access to it with overseas vendors. Experts say OCR won't pursue foreign companies after a breach. That means all risk remains on HIPAA-covered entities.

The inaugural event will take place at HIMSS17 on Feb 19 in Orlando. We’re looking for speakers right now. 

CEO Jeff Margolis said Welltok plans to expand its platform for connecting consumers with benefits and resources.