The quality of an organization's innovative output has a positive correlation with the installation of a CEO with a proven track record of high-impact inventions, a recent report suggests.

Beyond sparking ideas that boost revenue and customer satisfaction, innovation hubs can also spur their organizations' overall digital transformation — as long as the hub is established with clear and relevant goals in place.

The University of Illinois at Chicago's colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy are each launching new clinical simulation centers to provide students with thousands of hours' worth of hands-on training.

Five recent updates on how large technology and healthcare companies are using blockchain.

Mike Peluso is a career-long revenue cycle professional and has held senior leadership roles with multiple revenue cycle technology companies. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Rectangle Health. Here he answers three questions about leadership and health IT.

Sixty percent of CIOs anticipate some level of adoption of blockchain technologies in the next three years, according to a recent Gartner survey.

Judy Faulkner, Epic founder and CEO, discussed the culture she has spearheaded at the EHR company and why she values a "yes, if" approach to strategy during The Cap Times Idea Fest Sept. 14 in Madison, Wis., according to The Cap Times.

CommonSpirit Health Senior Vice President and Chief Strategic Innovation Officer Rich Roth outlines how the system built its innovation team and how consumerism affects healthcare delivery.

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

Rolla, Mo.-based Phelps Health plans to deploy an Epic EHR system by late 2020, according to Rolla Daily News.

Incorporating prescription drug prices in EHRs could help improve price transparency as well as sway physicians from ordering as many expensive diagnostic tests, according to the American Medical Association.  

Google announced Sept. 12 that it's developing tools for its Maps app that will help users find recovery and treatment centers for substance abuse and addiction, according to a company blog post.

Quest Diagnostics and hc1 developed a new service that employs machine learning to harmonize laboratory testing across health systems in order to help optimize laboratory test utilization. 

North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services tapped Phreesia, a New York City-based patient intake software company, to expand the reach of the state's initiative to address social determinants of health.

Healthy.io, a Tel Aviv-based developer of software for smartphone-based at-home urinalysis, announced on Sept. 12 the close of its Series C funding round, totaling $60 million, with participation from Samsung's innovation arm.

Though CEOs regularly meet and work with finance, sales and operations teams, they typically have a much less hands-on role in the IT division — much to the detriment of the entire organization.

As healthcare organizations adapt to the increasing importance of IT by hiring new executives to oversee digital transformation, it can be difficult to navigate the plethora of tech-related titles.

Oncology Pathways, a platform developed by Philips and integrating Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Clinical Pathways decision-making tool, is now live, just over a year after the two organizations announced their partnership.

Baptist Health South Florida named Mark Coticchia the Coral Gables-based health system's inaugural corporate vice president for innovation.

Members of the Consumer Technology Association, representing organizations such as IBM, Doctor on Demand and Validic, developed a set of guidelines for the handling of sensitive health information.