Vinil Menon, chief technology officer at health IT specialist provider CitiusTech in Princeton, N.J., shares his predictions for healthcare's use of blockchain in 2019 and what hospital and health system IT leaders need to know.  By Jackie Drees - 1/10/19

In a move to grapple with seemingly endless increases in healthcare spending, the U.S. healthcare industry is in the midst of undergoing a fundamental transformation in the way physicians are compensated to provide care to patients – from the current fee-for-service model to one where medical providers are paid a flat fee for servicing a defined group of patients.  By Patrick Krause - 1/10/19

Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility in Richmond, Mich., is notifying "a limited number of patients" after a phishing scheme compromised an employee's email account in April, MLive reports.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/10/19

Medical device integration and analytics company Excel Medical is bringing its real-time patient surveillance tools to the Epic EHR.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/10/19

Health information exchanges are underutilized between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, according to a study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/10/19

What does it take to be a Most Wired hospital? Spok dove into the data to see what the top 10 have in common for traits and clinical metrics. See what they found.  By Staff - 1/10/19

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago achieved Stage 7 on the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's eight-stage Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity, making it the third healthcare provider in the U.S. to earn the distinction.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/10/19

Cerner CEO Brent Shafer said the company is "moving from being an EHR-centric company to a platform organization," the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter reports.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/10/19

Black Diamond Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision medicine approaches for cancer care, completed a series B round of financing, raising $85 million.  By Anuja Vaidya - 1/10/19

Blood pressure monitors, prosthetic limbs and smart glasses for surgeons were among the products honored by the CES Innovation Awards program at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 1/10/19

Amazon has acquired Israeli disaster-recovery startup CloudEndure, Reuters reports. CloudEndure offers continuous backup and cloud migration services to help businesses move their data to the cloud.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 1/10/19

Google plans to open a 584,000 square-foot office campus in Los Angeles, according to CNBC.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 1/10/19

IBM Research debuted a wearable "fingernail sensor" — which it says may one day help clinicians monitor patient health — at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 1/10/19

The federal Health IT Advisory Committee has canceled its January meeting due to the government shutdown, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 1/10/19

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon should convince Apple to join the joint healthcare venture his company started with Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway, CNBC's Jim Cramer argues.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/9/19

IBM Watson Health is still a "very important part" of IBM's business, despite a recent leadership shake up in its health division and criticism of its artificial intelligence-powered cancer treatment tool, CEO Ginni Rometty told STAT in an interview Jan. 8.  By Julie Spitzer - 1/9/19

It's no secret that the healthcare industry is experiencing several profound disruptions, including new regulations, changing consumer demands and aging patient populations. These changes have created several serious obstacles for individual providers and healthcare organizations. By Brian Zimmerman - 1/9/19

Stuart Lackey, co-founder and CEO of healthcare blockchain company Solaster in Nashville, Tenn., discusses challenges blockchain technology faced in 2018 as well as the rising prominence of distributed ledger technologies.  By Jackie Drees - 1/9/19

Kumar Madurai, delivery manager and principal consultant at health IT support company CTG Health Solutions in Buffalo, N.Y., discusses his predictions on the most significant blockchain applications in healthcare over the next five years.  By Jackie Drees - 1/9/19

A recent press release by Intuitive Surgical reviews their preliminary fourth quarter and 2018 full year results.  By Staff - 1/9/19