Most provider organizations can integrate data from external hospitals into their EHR, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey, which the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives released Oct. 31.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/2/18

Apple has released its earnings results for the fourth quarter of 2018.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/2/18

Here are 10 recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives:  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/2/18

Peter Marks, PhD, vice president and CIO at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., discusses the importance of optimism when it comes to different technologies and trends in health IT as well as the benefit to improving community health.  By Jackie Drees - 11/2/18

Art Papier, MD, CEO of diagnostic clinical decision support system company VisualDx, and practicing dermatologist at University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medicine, discusses his 30 years of experience in medical informatics and shares advice for CMIOs.  By Jackie Drees - 11/2/18

PeraHealth named Greg White CEO, effective Nov. 1. The company offers predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/2/18

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health implemented Sweetch, an artificial intelligence-driven digital therapeutics solution that aims to help predict diabetes risk and improve outcomes among diabetics.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/2/18

Allscripts has released its earnings results for the third quarter of 2018.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/2/18

Innovaccer, a healthcare data company, named Stephen K. Klasko, MD, to its Strategic Advisory Council.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/1/18

Travis Dalton, president of government services at Cerner, outlined early results and next steps for the EHR vendor's contracts with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs in an Oct. 30 blog post.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/1/18

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives awarded Omer Awan, senior vice president and CIO of Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health, its 2018 transformational leadership award.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/1/18

Eric Hargan, deputy secretary of HHS, unveiled the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center Oct. 29 as part of October's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/1/18

Here are 10 recent news updates on major health IT and technology companies:  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/1/18

As nurse leaders strive to improve patient outcomes, communication technology can boost care quality and help nurses stay connected to the bedside. However, as nurses continually rearrange their priorities according to changing patient conditions, leaders must ensure these frontline providers aren't overburdened by numerous alerts and patient documentation tasks. To mitigate cognitive burden, hospitals can adopt communication tools that make workflows more streamlined.  By Megan Knowles - 11/1/18

Health technology company PatientPing is enhancing its care coordination platform by adding a "tagging" feature that helps clinicians identify patients who belong to bundled payment programs in real-time.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/1/18

Osage Beach, Mo.-based Lake Regional Health System is partnering with Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care to share the Cerner EHR.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/1/18

Inside and outside the health system, clinicians must collaborate, regardless of any roadblocks that may stand in their way. However, it is undeniable that technology has transformed patient care and paved the way for improved care coordination.  By Staff - 11/1/18

Physiologic monitoring devices are so ubiquitous in hospitals that it’s difficult to recall a time without them.  By John Zaleski, PhD, CAP, CPHIMS - 11/1/18

In many hospitals across the country, nurse scheduling is still being done on basic spreadsheets or even pen and paper, with managers using little more than intuition, guesswork, or simply the previous schedule period to plan the appropriate number and type of staff to match patient volume. In a time of innovative technology, the complicated task of creating a nursing schedule continues to steal valuable time from nurse managers, cause frustration, and create last-minute staffing chaos.  By Jackie Larson, President, Avantas - 11/1/18

In a recent press release, Adventist Health System (AHS), one of the largest faith-based health systems in the U.S., successfully deployed the eGlycemic Management System® from Glytec.  By Staff - 11/1/18