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.

Shoppers at two San Antonio Walmarts can now see a physician steps from where they buy their groceries, home goods and vitamins.

On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for its Windows XP operating system.

Santa Maria, Cal.-based Marian Regional Medical Center, part of San Francisco-based Dignity Health, has notified patients their personal health information had been compromised.

The following is a roundup of recent health IT vendor contracts reported within the last week, beginning with the most recent.

Chicago-based Assisted Living Concepts has notified current and former employees that a hacker has accessed the company's payroll records.

The number of criminal attacks on healthcare systems has increased a startling 100 percent since 2010, according to the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security released by the Ponemon Institute.