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…

Anthem is warning its 80 million former and current members, who were victims of a cyberattack breach, of an email scam, according to Reuters. 

The company is advising customers that it is not…

Major U.S. hospitals are quickly adopting Apple healthcare technology, in particular Apple's HealthKit service, reports Reuters.

Fourteen of 23 top hospitals contacted by the news service said they…

Department of Health and Human Services chief Sylvia Burwell announced that the agency will invest $28 million in health information exchange grants, according to Health IT Buzz, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s…

EHR giant Cerner has finalized its $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens Health Services, the U.S.-based health IT division of German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has unveiled its highly-anticipated roadmap for interoperability, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology. 

The 166-page roadmap, “Connecting Health…

Congressional leaders convened an initial hearing to explore the need for federal data breach legislation, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

During the session, legislators and stakeholders examined what elements…

While physicians report that changing EHRs can improve functionality and help meet Meaningful Use requirements, many are unhappy with the switch, according to a survey published in Family Practice Management. 

Researchers…

The proliferation of wearable devices is giving physicians some pause about the usability of the data they collect, reports NPR.

Just because a device looks shiny and new doesn't mean it's useful or accurate. "I get information…

Although reports so far on Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 progress appear bleak, federal health officials counter that the majority of providers eligible to attest to MU Stage 2 already have done so, reports Clinical Innovation +…

Federal Trade Commission Chair Edith Ramirez is calling on IT companies that manufacture medical devices to put the necessary safeguards in place to protect patient data, according to MEDCITY News.

In particular she…

Pharmaceutical company Genetech is expected to pay as much as $50 million to 23andMe to access its genetic data donated by consumers, reports The Verge.

In 2013, 23andMe was prohibited from selling its saliva test kits…

The Department of Defense has yet to choose which bidder will take on its $11 EHR billion contract, but that has not stopped IBM and Epic from beginning preparations on their collaborative effort to overhaul the system, reports …

Big news on the Meaningful Use Stage 3 front: The proposed rule has been sent to the Office of Management and Budget and will be published in the Federal Register upon review, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.…

The vast majority of states and the federal government fail to track how many Medicaid physicians use EHRs, reports Politico.

States can identify which doctors have received the Medicaid payments, and the Centers for Disease…

Apple iOS 8/2, which was released in beta form to developers last week, contains notes indicating that blood glucose tracking will be included as a feature, reports Forbes.

The health app update also features descriptions…

The recent hack of Sony Corp. is bringing to light how much electronic health data proliferates outside of the medical setting, according to Bloomberg. 

"Corporate wellness programs have become one of the biggest areas where health…

Health Catalyst, a Utah-based data warehousing and analytics company, is partnering with Microsoft to deploy data warehouse and analytics solutions for the healthcare sector, according to Clinical Innovation + Technology.

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Developers of wearable technology have had their fair share of reality checks recently, reports Forbes.

Juniper Research found that wearables likely will be of limited use in the big picture beyond fitness, and Joseph…

Mobile communications giant Blackberry and NantHealth, a cloud-based big data health company, have unveiled a clinical genome browser that gives physicians unprecedented access to patients’ genetic data on the BlackBerry Passport…

Despite taking in $600 million in federal investment, it remains uncertain whether the promised benefits of health information exchanges will be being realized, according to a RAND Corp. study. 

The study, summarized in Forbes,…