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Innovations created at the New Jersey hospital include a mobile app that allows patients to self-register and even provides driving directions.

By leveraging analytics and lean approaches to IT, the Louisiana system has logged wins on sepsis, a total joint program and pneumonia care.

A population health focus helps the Oregon hospital uncover critical insight hidden in patient data.

A Physicians Champions Committee is part of the formula that keeps the  IT aligned with the health system’s goals.

Healthcare merger and acquisition activity was down in the third quarter of 2016. Compared with the second quarter, deal volume fell 11 percent, to 369 transactions, according to HealthcareM&A.com.

Among all industries, healthcare ranks 15th out of 18 in social engineering for security, suggesting a security awareness problem among healthcare professionals that could be putting millions of patients at risk.

Critical success factors for making human capital management a strategic asset.

Lewis will also serve as CEO of Ascension Information Services, the hospital’s IT arm. 

Five employees responded to the phishing emails, which allowed hackers unauthorized accessed, officials said.

Research from Accenture and Girls Who Code is out with the classic good news, bad news regarding women in the computing workforce. The bad news? The number of women in the U.S. computing workforce will decline from 24 percent to 22 percent by 2025, the research shows.