Beyond merely keeping hospital operations running smoothly, collaborations across a healthcare organization's IT and revenue cycle departments will also determine the organization's ability to keep up with the rapidly evolving landscape of the industry.

Integrating blockchain into existing operations can seem daunting. However, healthcare organizations should not be intimidated by blockchain. 

Philips and Visus Health IT were among the top vendor-neutral archive vendors that scored highest for their ability to meet promised expectations, according to a KLAS Research report.

Shriners Hospitals for Children is partnering with genomics telehealth technology company Genome Medical to advance precision medicine and genetic services offered at the Tampa, Fla.-based health system's new genomics institute.  

Suki, an artificial intelligence, voice-enabled digital assistant for physicians, will serve as a clinical digital assistant partner to Google Cloud.

With many artificial intelligence algorithms now outperforming physicians and traditional medical techniques, AI has the potential to provide high-quality, cost-effective care, but many patients are still reluctant to accept automated healthcare services.

Researchers from Facebook and the New York City-based NYU School of Medicine have been collaborating for the past year to develop artificial intelligence that can produce high-quality imaging data faster than a traditional MRI scanner.

Leaders in state and city government, philanthropic organizations, urban development and the University of Michigan announced plans this week for a 14-acre Detroit Center for Innovation, located in the heart of the city's downtown.

Wearable accelerometers outperform patient surveys and other traditional methods not only at measuring physical activity, but also in predicting five-year mortality risk in older adults, a recent study from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests.

The health system revenue cycle process is in need of a makeover as patients take more responsibility for their bills, and healthcare moves toward a value-based system.

Surgeons at Methodist Dallas Medical Center allowed an unlimited number of people to watch them perform brain surgery by livestreaming the procedure, according to ABC News.

Incorporating medical scribes into workflows has helped clinicians seen more patients, according to research findings presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2019.

A federal court granted approval Oct. 25 to Quest Diagnostics to settle a class-action lawsuit that stemmed from a 2016 data breach for $195,000, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.

Cleveland Clinic has teamed up with enterprise health operating system League to develop technology and other tools that will empower employees across the country to take control of their healthcare, according to an Oct. 28 news release.

Approximately 19,000 patients and 3,000 volunteers may have been affected in a data breach at six Prisma Health-Midlands hospitals, according to The State.

As part of Microsoft's Project Hanover, biomedical researchers from the Jackson Laboratory are refining an artificial intelligence tool that "reads" medical documents to inform the development of precision cancer treatments, per an Oct. 27 Microsoft blog post.

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Cardinal Health and Amazon Web Services are partnering with Virtusa, an IT and digital health solutions provider, to use artificial intelligence techniques in medical research.

Vively Health, a home-based primary care provider for patients with multiple chronic conditions, will implement a Cerner EHR and population health management platform.

Keeping the word blockchain out of the description of new tools that use blockchain, could be one way to get others onboard with adopting them. This is because blockchain can be difficult to understand, despite it becoming more mainstream. 

East Lansing-based Michigan State University received a $19.5 million gift from Doug Meijer and the Meijer Foundation to build a facility that will support biomedical research to develop new healthcare solutions.