Integration of disparate IT systems is one of the most significant challenges for healthcare CIOs and IT leaders, according to a report from healthcare operations software provider Symplr. 

With all the new health IT products on the market, KLAS Research asked CIOs and other leaders to separate the top performers from the rest.

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of California San Diego were awarded $8.5 million to create a data integration hub. 

Mark Howell, director of policy for the American Hospital Association, said if CMS' waiver for hospital-at-home programs isn't extended, a lot of the programs would shut down and only payer-providers could keep them going, Time reported Oct. 10. 

When Epic created its first billing system, it charged $3,000 — less than it cost the EHR vendor to make.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is working to attract biotech companies to its planned Discovery Oasis innovation hub in Phoenix, Ariz., local news outlet ABC 15 reported Oct. 11.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals CIO Robert Eardley told Becker's that the guiding principle in its process to convert 5.6 million patient records into a single Epic EHR was ensuring that patient care was seamless and uninterrupted. 

John Fernandez, president and CEO of LifeSpan, based in Providence, R.I., said hospitals and health systems are getting attacked by cybersecurity events daily, WPRI reported Oct. 10. 

OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Ill., inked a licensing agreement with Summit Venture Studio to bring medical training software created by OSF Innovation to market. 

Surgeons often have an adversarial relationship with data.