Clinical variation management is the key to improving patient outcomes, reducing health costs and handling financial risk.  By Michael Sanders, MD - 11/12/18

CHICAGO and DURHAM, N.C. -- Nearly 53 percent of provider organizations are piloting and deploying remote monitoring and virtual care programs – driven increasingly by expanding reimbursements and avoiding readmission penalties.  By Staff - 11/12/18

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Illumina are joining forces to assess the availability and clinical understanding of DNA sequencing technologies, genetic testing and precision medicine.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/12/18

Advancements in healthcare technology hold the promise of improving efficiency, security, and quality of care while reducing costs.  By Jeff Plum, Senior Manager, Advanced Services Strategy – Healthcare, Ricoh USA, Inc. - 11/12/18

In a recent Qventus blog post, they announce they are partnering with Fairview Health Services to go beyond command & control.  By Staff - 11/12/18

Private equity firm Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of hedge fund Elliott Management, have agreed to buy athenahealth for an estimated $5.7 billion in cash, ending a monthslong question over whether the Watertown, Mass.-based healthcare software vendor would remain independent or be acquired.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/12/18

In less than a year, more than 100 hospitals and clinics have joined Apple's health records project.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/12/18

CMS has revealed more details about the hack on an Affordable Care Act sign-up portal involving about 75,000 consumers in mid-October, according to TechCrunch.  By Julie Spitzer - 11/12/18

An artificial intelligence model can predict a patient's likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease more than six years before their final diagnosis, according to a study published in Radiology.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/9/18

It's time to cut unnecessary work from the EHR, according to a perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine by Melinda Ashton, MD, a physician with Hawaii Pacific Health in Honolulu.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/9/18

Here are 11 recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives:  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/9/18

In a recent press release, Zingbox annonced that it has been named a 2018 SINET 16 Innovator.  By Super User - 11/9/18

Consumer data, clinical data, siloed streams of duplicate and unique data from varying sources – that’s the complex world today’s healthcare systems are trying to effectively navigate in order to better engage with patients, improve clinical workflow, and ultimately drive better health outcomes.  By Mitch Collier, vice president of product, StayWell - 11/9/18

Health insurer Cigna developed an application that offers guidance and resources during pregnancy, aiming to reduce the number of preterm and low birth weight babies.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/9/18

The Center for Medical Interoperability named Marty Bonick to its board.  By Anuja Vaidya - 11/9/18

Ancestry, a provider of direct-to-consumer genetic testing and genealogy services, will implement planning analytics tools from IBM help forecast its business processes, such as revenue and subscriptions.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/8/18

Ron Elfenbein, MD, CEO at emergency medicine clinic Chesapeake ERgent Care in Gambrills, Md., discusses the possibilities of computer usage beyond data storage and how it could benefit the future of EHRs and the healthcare industry.  By Jackie Drees - 11/8/18

Nurses touch most systems and virtually every aspect of patient care and experience, so gaining their buy-in is key to successful technology implementation.  By Antoinette Thomas, RN, MSN, and Mike Bechtel, Oneview Healthcare - 11/8/18

The majority of cancer patients said open access to their physician notes improved their understanding of their diagnoses and treatments, according to a study published in Practical Radiation Oncology.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/8/18

There were 117 healthcare breaches disclosed during the third quarter of 2018, comprising nearly 4.4 million patient records, according to a report from cybersecurity software company Protenus.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 11/8/18