Pharmacy

Artificial intelligence is the key in one technology's ability to administer less medication, thus putting patients at reduced risk and lowering medication costs.

With the new addition, combining Kantar's research and consulting expertise with its own technology and real-world data, Cerner aims to further build out its Learning Health Network consortium.

Monthly Update: HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock recaps some of March's biggest stories, including digital health's wild funding month, big tech moves and how to sign up for a vaccine at three major pharmacy chains.

Built on Salesforce's Vaccine Cloud, the Vaccine Edge tool is aimed at improving the vaccination signup process when high demand tests website capacity.

The tracking technology also is enabling the hospital to report more highly accurate results to the Pennsylvania state health department.

The announcement follows reports of problems with the new Cerner system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane.

With its promise of virtual care in all 50 states, this is the first time a big tech firm will be directly in the healthcare services business. Will it be another failed experiment, or the breakthrough we've been waiting for?

Symmetric Health Solutions CEO Rich Kucera and Northern Light's Matt Marston discuss how supply chain shortages have plagued health systems during COVID-19 as well as Northern Light's successful vaccine rollout.

This week's top stories include a plea from medical groups to increase efforts to collect ethnicity data when administering vaccinations, the release of Apple Hearing Study results, and Johnson & Johnson and Merck ramping up vaccine manufacturing.

This week's top stories include Google Cloud joining the national COVID-19 vaccination effort, the federal government sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses directly to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.