The National Institutes of Health will offer researchers unrestricted access to genomic summary results from most of the clinical studies it funds, overturning a previous policy change at the agency.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/8/18

The Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR contract with Cerner has been plagued by multiple roadblocks during the past year, including personnel issues and changing expectations, according to a ProPublica investigation.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/8/18

As innovations in healthcare delivery beckon advances in technology, health IT vendors must rethink how IT systems are designed to better meet clinicians' needs.  By Julie Spitzer - 11/5/18

The IT Help Desk (ITHD) is a critical component of any healthcare organization’s IT operations’ support of their electronic health record (EHR) investment.  By Ann Crow, Senior Client Support Manager, CTG - 11/7/18

While healthcare is experiencing its most rapid pace of innovation in recent history, not every organization has been able to keep up with this pace and provide staff with the most advanced, efficient technology available.  By Paul Bradley, senior vice president and chief data scientist, Waystar - 11/7/18

Greenway Health, a health IT and services provider, promoted Kimberly O'Loughlin to president, effective Nov. 6.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/7/18

A plumbers union in Chicago has selected Cerner to manage a new health center, where the group's members and their families will be able to access healthcare services as part of their union benefits.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/7/18

For Andy Nieto, health solution manager at Lenovo Health, care collaboration is "the pinnacle of the art of care and the science of care together."  By Julie Spitzer - 11/5/18

EHR adoption is nearly universal among acute-care hospitals in the U.S. However, hospitals still struggle to adopt these systems in a way that meets regulatory mandates and clinicians' expectations, leaving little time to manage the remainder of a facility's technologies. In mid-September, one Canon executive shared a potential solution with a room full of hospital leaders.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/6/18

Epic ranked as the No. 1 EMR vendor for customer satisfaction based on survey data from providers across the globe, according to a KLAS Research report.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/6/18

Apple and Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine released an update on their joint heart rhythm study, dubbed the Apple Heart Study, on Nov. 1 — roughly one year after its launch.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/6/18

The FDA is searching for candidates with backgrounds in analytics, digital therapeutics and interoperability to join its "dynamic digital health team," FDA Associate Director for Digital Health Bakul Patel wrote in a LinkedIn blog post Nov. 2.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/6/18

Fifteen chief medical information officers from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. discuss their team visions for 2019 and how they plan to achieve their goals.  By Jackie Drees - 11/6/18

Google recently came under fire after a cybersecurity vulnerability in their Google+ product was discovered to have exposed the private data of millions of users.  By Vidya Murthy - 11/6/18

Fueled by healthcare’s data deluge, enthusiasm for machine learning and artificial intelligence is on the rise as providers recognize the need for automated and analytic tools for managing patients more effectively.  By Dan Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate - 11/6/18

We are on the path to a value-based care system. Value-based care underpins the Affordable Care Act and is a guiding principle of health systems in the Nordics and Germany.  By Bret Schroeder, healthcare expert at PA Consulting - 11/6/18

In the hyper-competitive world that is today's healthcare industry, organizations such as insurers, providers, service providers, suppliers, among others, need to become as operationally effective and efficient as possible.  By Evan Hines, X by 2 - 11/6/18

In his first article for The New Yorker since being named the CEO of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase's joint health venture in June, Atul Gawande, MD, discusses the issues he faced during his own hospital's transition to Epic.  By Alyssa Rege - 11/6/18

New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hired Adam Margolin, PhD, to serve as professor and chair of the genetics and genomic sciences department of genetics and senior associate dean of precision medicine. He will also lead the Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/6/18

Healthcare breaches made up 37 percent of all ransomware incidents in the third quarter, according to a Beazley report.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/6/18