Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc., a global provider of musculoskeletal healthcare, and LDR Holding Corporation, a global medical device company, have announced that both boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement under which Zimmer…

Consumers of health IT have a new asset when looking for more information about costs and performance of products. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)…

In an interview with TechCrunch, Grand Rounds CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp talks about evaluating candidates, healthcare startups and the prominence of women in healthcare IT.

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Change Healthcare, a provider of software and analytics and technology-enabled services, has announced a partnership with SourceMed, a provider of outpatient software solutions and revenue cycle management services for surgery centers.

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While many security issues translate across multiple industries, there are cases where specific industries have unique challenges. What is serious to the automotive industry might not be as serious to the publishing field. There are few places…

For the 24 million Americans who have asthma, more information may mean more control of their disease. A study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical…

Near the end of the FDA’s public comment period in response to its recommendations related to medical device cybersecurity standards, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association for Executives in…

With women now making 94 percent of the decisions about health and wellness for themselves and their families, the marketing direction has begun to tailor to their perspectives.

"Our goal should be to further fuel and meaningfully tap into…

Patient Treatment Centers of America (PTCOA) and the Interventional Surgery Institute (ISI) are notifying over 19,000 patients of a security breach suffered by third party vendor Bizmatics.

Bizmatics owns and operates PrognoCIS, an…

A survey conducted by Ponemon Institutes has found that the risk of healthcare network leaks and cyber-attacks is rising as a result of endpoint vulnerabilities.

The…

Even in the world of Star Trek, which teleported sci-fi fans to the 24th century, technology hadn’t advanced this far. Medics on the Enterprise still had to lug around little handheld devices to collect and analyze date. But here in 2016,…

Of the many challenges facing individuals with hypertension and Type 2 diabetes, nearly half of these patients fail to meet treatment goals due to medication non-adherence, poor patient engagement and lack of treatment optimization. 

Data…

The spree of hostage-takings at hospitals, in which hackers plant ransomware and then demand payoffs for the release of affected computers, may be growing fast and hurting the victim hospitals more than some of them have let on.

The website…

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics has published a report on some of the technologies shaping hospitals’ purchase plans in 2016.

Data analysis earned two different spots in the report’s list of “growth…

Cerner (#34), Express Scripts (#66) and Intuitive Surgical (#87), all healthcare-specific companies based in the U.S., have made the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies.

A number of pharmaceutical firms made…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking $92 million to fund the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as part of its 2016 budget proposal, Health Data Management reports.

HHS Secretary Sylvia…

Despite federal government claims to protect the security and privacy of medical records, officials have rarely penalized hospitals, physicians and health insurance companies, ProPublica reports.

According to ProPublica,…

Medical device maker Phillips Healthcare takes a four-step approach to guard against unauthorized access to devices, data leakage and hacker attacks, Information Security Media Group reports.

Michael McNeil, global product security…

An Indiana mental health organization has disclosed the breach of 45,000 patients' records after one of its providers failed to encrypt laptops containing clients' medical data and Social Security numbers, reports Clinical Innovation +…

A lobbying campaign by technology companies that will profit from selling digital health has been successful so far, reports Politico.

In the past few weeks, the FDA has promised not to regulate technologies that receive, transmit…

Technology integration has the power to transform healthcare by facilitating better medical services for patients, reports Forbes. 

Imagine a world where ZocDoc, Uber and Google's driverless car…