Minneapolis-based digital healthcare technology company VigiLanz has announced its clinical surveillance and quality software-as-a-service platform is ready for the switch to ICD-10.

About two-thirds of the 298 hospital and health system senior-level IT executives surveyed for the 2014 HIMSS Leadership Survey said their IT budgets for 2014 are higher than their budgets in 2013.

San Francisco-based Augmedix, a health IT startup that has developed an app that records to and then displays patients' records through Google Glass, has raised $3.2 million in venture capital to grow the company and increase outreach efforts.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., have developed an algorithm using data from Twitter that is able to predict flu outbreaks with 85 percent accuracy.

The ONC's open-source population health management software, popHealth, has gained 2014 Edition certification as an electronic health record module.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is working with the ONC and CMS to evaluate the proposed meaningful use stage 3 criteria.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall of McKesson Technologies Anesthesia Care software following an incident of a patient's data appearing in another patient's record.

TeleTracking Technologies, Hill-Rom Company and GOJO have partnered to combine their services in a real time hand hygiene compliance service.

Payer-provider communication is a core innovation investment focus for health plans and hospitals today, because lower clinical costs and better quality care require communications that go beyond administrative transactions to meaningful interaction and true collaboration.

In 2001, it cost more than $300 million to sequence a human genome, according to the Personalized Medicine Coalition. In 2011, the cost was down to $5,000.