Epic approved Loopback Analytics' pharmacy analytics and workflow tools for its App Orchard, the company confirmed July 24.

The National Institutes of Health plans to build out its work with artificial intelligence, NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, said during an agency conference July 23.

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

DirectTrust named Scott Stuewe president and CEO, effective Sept. 1.

Two United Nations specialized agencies — the International Telecommunication Union and the World Health Organization — established the ITU Focus Group on AI for Health.

After former Director of Apple Health Anil Sethi lost his sister to cancer, he devoted his career to improving patient health records so researchers and physicians could more easily leverage that information to provide better care — and hopefully find…

IBM's Watson supercomputer, once hailed as a revolutionary cancer treatment tool, reportedly gave physicians inaccurate cancer treatment advice, and company medical specialists and customers reported "multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations," according to internal IBM documents reviewed by…

The U.S.Defense Department is planning to increase its health records contract with Cerner by $1.1 billion, officials said July 24, according to Nextgov.

Three Steward Health Care hospitals in Ohio and Pennsylvania have introduced an app enabling emergency medical responders to share patient information with hospitals in real time, according to The Business Journal.

Four of today's biggest tech giants — Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — revealed plans for a new open-source collaboration July 20.