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

Vocera, a clinical communication and workflow solutions provider, launched a new smartphone application that can sort through and prioritize patient-centric calls, secure messages and alerts in a single inbox for physicians.

Here are six recent health information technology vendor contracts and go-lives affecting healthcare organizations.

To boost telehealth adoption among physicians, American Well's Customer Solutions President Mike Baird says hospitals and health systems should align it more closely with the EHR.

Newark, N.J.-based Prudential Financial announced Sept. 6 an agreement to acquire Assurance IQ, a Bellevue, Wash.-based platform using advanced data analytics to manage consumers' health, life, Medigap and auto insurance options.

The U.S. outranks the rest of the world in facilitating the growth of a digital business ecosystem, according to a new analysis from the Harvard Business Review.

Microsoft and AstraZeneca launched the AI Factory for Health, an accelerator program for early-stage companies using artificial intelligence to address issues in healthcare.

A recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, Vocera today announced the release of Vocera Vina, the company’s revolutionary new smartphone application.

A recent publication by NTT data announced their collaboration with Google Cloud to develop a new healthcare solution that will deliver offerings in cloud, analytics and artificial intellligence. 

The University of California Irvine's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance its innovative research and development efforts.

Northwell Health has begun rolling out the use of Microsoft Teams, a cloud-based communication platform, for secure messaging between clinicians at the New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based health system.

Installing touch-button terminals throughout a hospital's emergency department provides an accurate depiction of real-time patient and clinician sentiment, a recent study from Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine suggests.

A piece of malware has been alerted to infiltrate a blockchain system and give the hacker the ability to remotely control the user's computer, according to Decrypt.

Conway (Ark.) Regional Medical Center alerted patients and staff Aug. 23 that an unauthorized third party had gained access to employee email accounts, according to local ABC affiliate KATV.

Patients are more likely to keep coming back to a hospital or health system following a data breach if they are promptly notified of the incident, according to a study by credit reporting agency Experian and cited by the HIPAA Journal.

Mike Cottle, IS director at 103-bed Newton (Kan.) Medical Center, focuses on keeping the hospital and patient information secure.

Scott Hayworth, MD, is president and CEO of CareMount Medical, a large independent multispecialty medical group with 45 offices in New York.

Since the start of the year, nearly 33 million people have been affected by data breaches across the country as of Aug. 5, according to HHS data and cited by Gov Info Security.

Artesia (N.M.) General Hospital has notified 13,905 patients of a recent security incident that may have exposed patient information.

Susan Murphy, RN, BSN, is chief experience officer at UChicago Medicine, which includes around 1,200 physicians and 3,000 nurses who care for patients.