Also expect virtual doc visits by 2016 for common ailments UMass Memorial Healthcare will be rolling out an Epic EHR system to replace its Soarian EHR from Siemens, which is now part of Cerner. There was no formal announcement. "Epic is coming," UMass Memorial President and...
If you can't beat them—and you can't—then join them. Yes, there's an app for that. But even if there is, you definitely shouldn't write it. Not if you're an indie developer, anyway. (Or you enjoy poverty.)...
SEATTLE — Next week, when Microsoft releases Windows 10, the latest version of the company’s operating system, the software will offer a mix of the familiar and new to the people who run earlier versions of it on more than 1.5 billion computers and other...
Research points to ways to reduce incorrect assessments of patient conditions Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC's electronic surveillance framework for hospitalized kids is poised to significantly reduce false-positive identification of serious health conditions. This according to new peer-reviewed research published today in the journal Pediatric Critical...
Corporate partnerships, like human ones, depend on what each side brings to the relationship and what each side needs. So, using that give-and-take formula, an alliance announced on Wednesday would seem to be a good match. IBM, the technology giant, and Box, a Silicon Valley online file-storage...
The key to mobile success: knowing what users do and what they value. We're in love with apps. Recent figures from Web application design and development company Go-Globe reveal that we now spend 89% of our mobile time in apps, and we're spending 21% more time in...
The deaths of five people, including three children, in a raging fire that engulfed a home in New Orleans last November was “a terrible tragedy,” the city’s first deputy mayor, Andy Kopplin, said....
'There is no question that the Surescripts network is more connected than ever before' Surescripts processed 6.5 billion health data transactions in 2014, a feat that the network's officials say marks a major digital transformation of U.S. healthcare....
The timing and technology are right to bring the power of digital sensing to the poor to improve health, safety and education. That is the animating assumption behind a new project announced on Tuesday. The initiative is led by Unicef and ARM, the British chip designer...
After AT&T and New York University held the first hack-a-thon to come up with technologies to help people with disabilities, the call went out for other likely campus hosts for the software-based “Connect Ability” Challenge. Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...