Salesforce unwraps platform for post-EHR world

The cloud-based software vendor is driving toward what it calls 'precision healthcare,' not to be confused with precision medicine Essentially confirming months of rumors about its intentions to plant a flag in the healthcare market, Salesforce.com has unveiled Health Cloud. The software-as-a-service suite features what the company...

Even this close to the deadline more than half of respondents to a new survey said they are not yet on course ICD-10 is officially a month away and all indications suggest this Oct. 1 will be the day that finally matters for the code set...

It can't be about salary—so what do you do? In the beginning stages of your business, you can't always offer competitive salaries. So as you're trying to get off the ground, you have to find other ways to structure your business so that early-stage employees...

Researchers from the University of California-San Diego have created 3D-printed “microfish” — each 120 microns long and 30 microns thick (thinner than a strand of human hair) — that can swim around in fluids and then perform tasks such as detect and neutralize toxins....

This may well be the most important factor in determining your professional and personal success. One thing I've realized about the most successful people I've met is that whatever their varied personalities and idiosyncrasies there is one consistent attribute they all share, high Conversational Intelligence. Simply put...

More than a year after the launch of the first Android Wear watches, Google is now finally bringing iOS support to its smartwatch platform with the launch of its Android Wear mobile app in Apple’s App Store today....

The director of the CMS Physicians Regulatory Issues Team, William Rogers, MD, will act as ICD-10 point person William Rogers, MD, director of the Physicians Regulatory Issues Team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will act as ICD-10 ombudsman to the federal agency, acting...

In the summer of 1994, Jaap Haartsen started worked on what would become a ubiquitous and essential technology — Bluetooth. The 31-year-old Dutch engineer was living in Sweden and working for Ericsson. He never worked weekends, or more than 40 hours a week. He had a...