When you think about the technology company lifestyle, thanks mostly to the movies and television, you likely picture sallow, under-exercised employees slamming Red Bulls and wolfing down greasy pizza or burgers in the wee hours of the morning.  By Matt Dumas, Managing Partner at Chasm Partners - 10/12/17

An Irish court will allow Apple to build a $1 billion (€850 million) data center in the country, officials ruled Thursday, reports Reuters.  By Julie Spitzer - 10/12/17

Amazon reportedly has a two-year-old secret office in Santa Cruz, Calif., that employs over 100 people, according to CNBC.  By Julie Spitzer - 10/12/17

Since the number one cause of cyberattacks is insider accidents, healthcare leaders are increasingly searching for more effective ways of training employees on cybersecurity, reports TechRepublic.  By Julie Spitzer - 10/12/17

The Center for Digital Government recognized 13 entities for their cybersecurity-related contributions Oct. 12.  By Julie Spitzer - 10/12/17

In a recent press release, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a leading technology-enabled provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, announced that Southwest CARE Center in Santa Fe, NM has selected their HIM Consulting and Auditing solutions to help them enhance their revenue stream, improve productivity, and assess and enhance their coding activities.  By Staff - 10/12/17

The usage of smartphones has taken every industry by storm including healthcare.  By Ray Parker - 10/12/17

Mammoth Lakes, Calif.-based Mammoth Hospital is planning to implement Cerner's EHR system, according to a Sierra Wave Media report.  By Anuja Vaidya - 10/12/17

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella enjoys contemplating the technologies of the future, he said in an interview at the GeekWire Summit 2017.  By Julie Spitzer - 10/12/17

In 2016, nearly 82 percent of patients accessed their EHRs through a patient portal — a significant increase from 2013 when less than 5 percent had taken advantage of it — according to a survey released at the American Health Information Management Association conference in Los Angeles.  By Julie Spitzer - 10/12/17

$4 billion, $1.5 billion, $1.2 billion, $1.0 billion and $700 million. Excluding government contracts, these are among the five largest EMR price tags on record over the last two and a half years. That's four implementations weighing in at more than $1 billion each, and another one not far behind.  By Kris Kaneta, senior vice president of marketing at TeleTracking Technologies - 10/12/17

Nemours Children's Health System — a nonprofit children's health system based in Jacksonville, Fla., with locations in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — adopted telemedicine in 2014 and became the first pediatric health system to deliver direct-to-consumer telehealth. Since launching Nemours CareConnect, we have implemented telemedicine throughout our health system with direct-to-consumer care for acute, chronic and post-surgical appointments, as well as for clinical trial assessments. We also deliver telehealth to collaborating hospitals, schools and cruise ships, and use Nemours CareConnect to bring pediatric specialists into affiliated community hospitals as well as Nemours and non-Nemours primary care physicians to remotely assess patients.  By Shayan Vyas, MD, medical director, Nemours Children's Health System - 10/12/17

As reforms to the healthcare system continue to place emphasis on value-based care and outcomes-based reimbursement, it is important for hospitals and health systems to take advantage of technologies that reduce risk and ensure optimal patient care. Wi-Fi-based patient monitoring is one area of medical technology that promises to help achieve these important goals. Organizations that are adopting this technology are advancing a new chapter in wireless patient monitoring that is expected to grow rapidly in the future.  By Staff - 10/12/17

ONC revealed the "Secure API Server Showdown Challenge" in an Oct. 10 agency blog post by Steven Posnack, director of the ONC's Office of Standards and Technology.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/12/17

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society released a "call to action" focused on nationwide interoperability Oct. 11.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/12/17

The majority of patients indicate physicians' use of EHRs has had a positive (56 percent) or very positive (20 percent) impact on their health, according to a Select Hub report.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/12/17

IBM launched a unified data system, called the "Integrated Analytics System," the company announced Sept. 26.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/12/17

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System and pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim joined forces to create a predictive model to improve health outcomes for Type 2 diabetes patients, the companies announced Sept. 25.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/12/17

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna tapped Stanson Health, a Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based clinical decision support and analytics company, to automate its clinical prior authorization process through EHR integration.  By Morgan Haefner - 10/11/17

Microsoft Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Microsoft, launched a global competition to offer $3.5 million in funding to startups focused on artificial intelligence Oct. 10.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/11/17