HITRUST, a security standards development and accreditation organization, certified healthcare cloud provider ClearDATA on version 9.1 of its common security framework Aug. 8.

Ricky Bloomfield, MD, clinical and health informatics lead at Apple, said third-party developers working with Apple's health records feature will introduce apps later this year, according to VentureBeat.

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Premier joined forces with Progknowse to develop a genomic data set and predictive algorithms that can be used within the PremierConnect performance improvement platform.

Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., deployed Ayasdi's Artificial Intelligence-powered Clinical Variation Management software application.

Amazon is rolling out a new feature for its virtual assistant Alexa that will notify users when it learns answers to old questions, TechCrunch reports.

The University of Texas at Austin's Dell Medical School is launching a research resource that will function as a "biomedical data science hub," the university confirmed Aug. 7.

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

Beazley Breach Response Services saw an 18 percent increase in ransomware incidents across industries worldwide in 2017, according to Beazley's 2018 Breach Briefing.

Allscripts said it plans to sell its stake in Netsmart, an EHR solutions and services company that markets a cloud-based EHR for home health and senior living providers, according to Home Health Care News.