Today's Top 20 Health IT Stories
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Myths around virtual payment: 3 things to consider
The move toward automated collections is reaching a tipping point in healthcare, with 82 percent of physician practices and 92 percent of hospitals planning to ditch manual, paper-based processes for reconciling bills by the fourth quarter of 2018, a recent Black Book survey shows. - 9/11/18 -
How AI is transforming organ donation: 7 things to know
Artificial intelligence algorithms are saving lives by changing the way patients are matched with kidney donors, Quartz reports. - 9/11/18 -
Global healthcare AI market to reach $35B+ by 2025
The total global revenue opportunity for the healthcare artificial intelligence market will exceed $34 billion by 2025, according to a report from Tractica. - 9/11/18 -
20+ healthcare companies create the Da Vinci Project to advance data sharing
Twenty-plus healthcare companies have joined together to form the Da Vinci Project, a private sector initiative focused on leveraging HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources to improve data sharing. - 9/11/18 -
Breaches may hurt company share prices in the short term, but leave few lasting effects
Although many organizations expect data breaches to damage their reputation, the negative effect on a company's financial performance is short-lived, according to a Comparitech study. - 9/11/18 -
8 most dangerous malware strains this year
Roughly 91 of the 229 data breaches submitted to HHS' Office for Civil Rights' breach portal this year are listed as hacking or IT incidents, and another 91 are listed as unauthorized access or disclosure breaches. - 9/11/18 -
Elon Musk suggests he's only months from 'merging' the human brain with AI
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is only months away from revealing a product developed by his neurotechnology company Neuralink, according to claims he made during a Sept. 6 interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience." - 9/11/18 -
Ex-Apple exec: Silicon Valley strategies won't work in healthcare
A former Apple leader told CNBC Silicon Valley tech companies' current user and product experience strategies won't work in the healthcare market. - 9/11/18 -
23andMe is hiring — 3 suggestions about the company's growth
23andMe has 80 job openings posted on its website, offering insight into the popular direct-to-consumer DNA testing company's focus and areas for growth. - 9/10/18 -
How to prevent future cybersecurity attacks: 4 Qs with Partners HealthCare's CISO
Jigar Kadakia, chief information security and privacy officer at Boston-based Partners HealthCare, discusses the impact that a breach in cybersecurity can have on the healthcare ecosystem. - 9/10/18 -
Microsoft exec sees cloud opportunity in Amazon's growth
Judson Althoff, executive vice president of Microsoft's worldwide commercial business, said Microsoft is betting on its cloud services to steal customers from Amazon as the e-commerce giant explores new business areas, CNBC reports. - 9/10/18 -
AMIA voices support for CMS' plan to reduce EHR burdens on physician
The American Medical Informatics Association submitted comments on CMS' recent efforts to reduce documentation burden for physicians, largely praising the agency's work. - 9/10/18 -
Cambia Health Solutions taps chief AI officer
Cambia Health Solutions selected Faraz Shafiq to serve as chief artificial intelligence officer. - 9/10/18 -
Four ways adoption of AI is shaping the future of patient care
AI in healthcare is a market expected to hit $6.6 billion by 2021. - 9/10/18 -
Justice Department charges North Korean programmer in WannaCry ransomware attacks
The Department of Justice on Sept. 6 said it was charging a North Korean programmer in the 2017 "WannaCry" ransomware attack and two other high-profile hacks dating as far back as 2014, The Hill reports. - 9/10/18 -
EHR vendors stock report: Week of Sept. 4-7
All three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week. - 9/10/18 -
Google turns 20: Here are 7 ways it's changing healthcare
It's been two decades since Google launched on Sept. 4, 1998. - 9/10/18 -
Cerner President Zane Burke to step down
Cerner President Zane Burke will step down from his post at the company Nov. 2. - 9/10/18 -
New app uses IBM's blockchain to store patient preferences for data-sharing
Hu-manity.co rolled out an Android app to help consumers manage property rights for their personal data Sept. 6 — starting with healthcare data. - 9/7/18 -
4 recent vendor contracts, go-lives
Here are four recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives: - 9/7/18