The American Medical Association (AMA) reports that physicians are spending up to six hours a day working with their electronic health record (EHR) to comply with documentation mandates. This is contributing to record-high levels of physician burnout and dissatisfaction with the practice of medicine.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business.

Eastland (Texas) Memorial Hospital, Pawhuska (Okla.) Hospital and Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital in Manistique, Mich., each recently partnered with Cerner to implement the vendor's EHR cloud-based platform.

As vice president and chief medical information officer of the Northern Region at Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health, Lauren Koniaris, MD, considers open lines of communication the best asset to fostering innovation among her team members.

Aaron Sheedy is COO at Xealth, a Seattle-based digital health startup that makes it easier for health systems to integrate digital care vendors into their EHR platforms, from which clinicians can prescribe and monitor those vendors' content, apps, devices and other services.

Stephen Beck, MD, brings more than 20 years of experience working with Epic to his role as chief medical information officer at Bluetree Network, a Madison, Wis.-based Epic consulting firm.

More than half (52 percent) of information technology and business executives at healthcare provider organizations across the country took notice of Cerner and Amazon's recent partnership, according to a Reaction Data report.

ONC announced Sept. 10 that San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange and University of Texas at Austin will receive awards under the agency's Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology funding opportunity.

Mayo Clinic announced a 10-year strategic partnership with Google, which will provide the Rochester, Minn.-based health system with technological support to advance digital healthcare innovation.

A three-part system using machine learning was able to greatly reduce the number of false alarms caused by bedside monitors in the intensive care unit, a new study shows.

Even as the number of jobs added to the U.S. economy each month begins to slow down, IT hiring continues to rise, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Using automated deep learning software, physicians without any background in computer programming were able to develop effective artificial intelligence technology for medical image diagnostic classification, a recent study found.

Many theories have been proposed about the differences in reaching boomers, millennials and Generation Z, but no characteristic is more emblematic of the generation gap than screen size preference, according to a recent Bloomberg op-ed.

The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and Spokane, Wash.-based Gonzaga University will establish a new facility focused on medical education, health sciences and innovation.

Fewer than one-third of non-pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer's disease are backed by sufficient evidence, according to a report from nonprofit group UsAgainstAlzheimer's.

The global blockchain technology in healthcare market is expected to surpass $1.6 billion by 2025, according to a Global Market Insights reported and cited by the Cointelegraph.

Seattle-based Community Psychiatric Clinic, a mental health provider, fell victim to three email security breaches, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Danny Scott, CIO at Vincennes, Ind.-based Good Samaritan, has been the head of IT at the hospital for the past three years.

NYU Langone Health in New York City has been on the forefront of clinical innovation and now is pioneering new ways to improve the patient experience.

Jeff Townsend, Cerner executive vice president and chief of innovation, will retire by the end of 2019, the EHR vendor announced Sept. 9.