Using Epic's Care Everywhere, a point-to-point health information exchange tool, Minneapolis-based Allina Health was able to reduce the number of duplicate tests and procedures performed in the system's emergency departments.

HealthcareSource Location: Woburn, Mass. Type of company: Talent management software provider Meet the organization: Amongst a handful of accolades, Healthcare Source was named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte in 2013. While headquartered in Massachusetts,…

More than 90 percent of the country's hospitals have received an incentive payment for their adoption or use of an electronic health record system, and the EHR implementations are expected to continue: About half of hospitals with 200 or more…

ArborMetrix CEO Brett Furst recently spoke with Health 2.0 at HIMSS 2014 to discuss clinical analytics and how the company can impact healthcare economics.

Beginning in May, Rhode Island will implement its all-payer claims database that will require health insurers in the state to submit all medical, eligibility and pharmacy claims to the database, according to the Rhode Island Department of Health.

A $12 million grant will allow Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, part of Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital System, to build a portal that will facilitate the exchange of patient data across both healthcare and social service sectors.

Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have released the results of a study that found analyzing Wikipedia data can track influenza outbreaks faster than the traditional methods used by the Centers for Disease Control and…

Quality IT Partners Location: Mount Airy, Md. Type of company: Health IT consulting Meet the organization: With 25 employees, Quality IT Partners has grown to become one of the most successful and respected consulting companies in health IT. For instance,…

The ECRI Institute has released its first annual list of the top 10 patient safety concerns for hospitals and health systems based on analysis of more than 30,000 patient safety incidents and other research.

Boston Children's Hospital has brought predictive analytics into the cardiac intensive care unit, using a new software system that analyzes a myriad of vitals information to identify which patients' conditions may be worsening.