Best Doctors, a second-opinion service mostly offered as part of employee benefit packages, has acquired Rise Health, developer of a big data population health platform. The acquisition is designed to bolster Best Doctors' analytic capabilities while expanding its service offerings.

"Here, the hospital of the future is going to be the hospital of next year."

More than a third of provider organizations have put an IT initiative on hold during the past year due to a lack of qualified IT staffers, and a quarter are considering doing so, according to a recent survey from HIMSS…

At-home monitoring can help hypertension patients lower their blood pressure and reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Providers are well aware of the need for big data and analytics solutions, however the market for such tools is still relatively immature, according to a report from Chilmark Research.

EHR implementation may lead to a dip in patient volume but can boost revenue in the long term, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is live on the eClinicalWorks EHR platform at all 23 immigration detention facilities.

More than 90 percent of cloud services used in healthcare are at either medium risk or high risk of cyberattacks, according to a Forbes report citing cloud security vendor Skyhigh Networks.

The cloud is becoming commonplace in organizations' IT departments.

Weeks before Apple launches its new product, the company has updated its HealthKit privacy rules so developers who use the HealthKit platform may not sell personal data to advertisers, according to The Guardian.