Bioinformatics company Omicia acquires Spiral Genetics
The deal is expected to provide customers with new opportunities to develop novel diagnostics and also to manage long-term genomic data storage. Powered by WPeMatico
IoT in Healthcare Is Really the Internet of Patients (IoP)
Health information exchange platforms can be the key to unlocking the potential of the Internet of healthcare things or the Internet of Patients. Powered by WPeMatico
NIST publishes updated draft of Cybersecurity Framework, seeks comment
While officials made no major changes to the security guidance, the proposed updates evolve the voluntary guidance and introduces measurement methods for cybersecurity. Powered by WPeMatico
IBM acquires Agile 3 Solutions for cybersecurity technologies
Big Blue said the pending acquisition will increase its data protection capabilities. Powered by WPeMatico
CMS says 45 ACOs now participating in Next Generation
The Next Generation ACO Model tests whether financial incentives are working to improve outcomes. The 45 participants are up from 17 last year. Powered by WPeMatico
Mostashari: Value-based care demands free-flowing data
Former National Coordinator for Health IT: ‘Even though EHRs have proliferated, we have yet to achieve the interoperability, usability, and full utility of them.’ Powered by WPeMatico
CoPilot Provider Support Services notifies 220,000 patients of data breach from 2015
More than a year after discovering a potential breach to its websites, healthcare administrative services and IT provider, CoPilot Provider Support Services has notified 220,000 patients and doctors who used its service. Powered by WPeMatico
HIMSS17 HX360 Innovation Zone: Emerging technologies on tap
The exhibit area will feature more than 60 companies demonstrating early tools with the potential to disrupt or change the healthcare industry. Powered by WPeMatico
GE Healthcare advancing machine learning, population health, cloud-based imaging at HIMSS17
Heading into HIMSS17, GE Healthcare is developing a range of technologies, from analytics and cloud-based imaging to machine learning. Building on its GE Health Cloud, in fact, the company is enabling care teams to store, view, analyze and share images in ways they could not before storage and compute power were available in the cloud. ...
The Big Data Difference: Value-Based Purchasing
Health may be priceless, but healthcare is not. With medical costs on the rise, insurance companies and government payers are increasingly asking pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to prove—and quantify—the value of their therapies. Powered by WPeMatico