Healthcare providers are increasingly looking to health IT vendors for solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning and telehealth, according to a recent KLAS Research report. 

The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs' inspectors general will begin a joint audit this month to assess the agencies' progress achieving interoperability between their Cerner-built EHR systems, according to a Feb. 24 letter.

Home healthcare company Aveanna Healthcare began notifying an undisclosed number of patients and employees Feb. 18 that their information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.

The term, “The Cloud,” has become so commonplace that one might ask: “What does it mean and what value can it bring to a healthcare organization’s electronic health record (EHR)?”

While the Apple Watch Series 4 can serve as a medical-grade ECG device, the wearable itself is not nearly as accurate at reading the collected ECG data as trained physicians, a recent Cleveland Clinic-led study found.

A 2016 contract signed by researchers from Google and the University of California San Francisco, obtained in a public records request filed by Stat, outlines Google's plan to use UCSF patient data to develop artificial intelligence to predict outcomes.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

San Diego-based Rady Children's Hospital began alerting 2,360 radiology patients Feb. 21 that their information may have been accessed by unauthorized personnel.

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health on Feb. 26 launched an interactive tool within its EHR system that can automatically calculate a patient's risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

Becker's Hospital Review is excited to highlight the following three rising health IT and innovation leaders.

An artificial intelligence-enabled wearable sensor has the potential to avert up to one-third of readmissions for heart failure patients in the weeks after their initial discharge from the hospital, suggests a new study in Circulation: Heart Failure.

The American Hospital Association has begun accepting proposals for its 2020 innovation challenge, which calls for ideas and strategies to increase access, reduce costs and improve outcomes in the realm of behavioral health.

A working group of 52 healthcare and tech organizations convened by the Consumer Technology Association released on Feb. 25 a common framework for the development and use of artificial intelligence technology in healthcare.

Implementing a new EHR can generate big time costs for hospitals and health systems, with some spending hundreds of millions to even more than a billion dollars on rollouts.

Researchers from the CDC and Atlanta-based Georgia Institute of Technology are feeding data from social media platforms into artificial intelligence algorithms in an attempt to calculate more up-to-date national suicide statistics, Recode reports.

Artificial intelligence software developed by Nuance and Microsoft to listen to patient-physician conversations and automatically compile them into coherent reports is now available to the general market, the collaborators announced Feb. 24.

The American Medical Association on Feb. 25 announced the release of a new online resource to help physician practices navigate legal and operational challenges associated with providing patients access to their digital health information.

Hackers take on various faces when conducting phishing attacks, with PayPal being the most commonly impersonated company, according to a Vade Secure report.

In its annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Warren Buffett disclosed that he has a 5.7 percent year-end ownership in Apple stock, according to CNBC.

Allscripts on Feb. 25 announced the release of a new version of its web-based TouchWorks EHR for large ambulatory practices.