Cloud Computing

The Google Cloud Healthcare Data Protection Toolkit can help healthcare organizations chart strategies for HIPAA-aligned data management, the company says.

With the widespread digitization of patient health records, traditional paper and film-based records have been replaced with Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

While Google apparently signed a business associate agreement with Ascension, and the scope of the data sharing appears to be in line with HIPAA allowances, there are still many questions about how the patient information is being put to use.

The software integration will help streamline back-end processing and enable more Simply Helping's more than 1,000 staff members better support their clients from the field, officials say.

Teva Pharmaceuticals' new ProAir Digihaler detects when the inhaler is used and measures inspiratory flow, giving the patient and provider valuable insight, says EVP Sven Dethlefs.

The cloud-based EHR developer had alleged that a former customer, ZenCharts, which plans to appeal, had violated a user agreement, cloning its software to develop a system of its own.

In most industries, change or evolution isn’t a gradual process.

The Mayo Clinic's new 10-year partnership with Google Cloud aims to look for the next breakthroughs that diagnose and treat complex and serious illness or conditions more effectively, says CIO Cris Ross.

A new report from EY shows how health systems need to embrace AI, social, mobile, analytics, cloud and sensor technologies to unlock the potential of their data.

The ACI platform, which the companies say can ease administrative burden by streamlining documentation, has been rolled out to some customers in beta and is planned to launch in early 2020 across several specialties.