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In the last few years, a lot of HealthIT energy has been devoted to achieving health information exchange (HIE), also called interoperability between electronic health records (EHRs). The energy has come from national legislation and funding, but implementation is being … Read More

In February, hackers gained access to 80 million patient records at Anthem, one of the nation’s largest insurance companies. The Anthem data breach was the industry’s largest to date, and it pointed to the rising trend of medical identity theft … Read More

View image | gettyimages.com   The Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR) appeared in its 69th edition in 2015, but research shows that most doctors just use their smartphone. With free drug reference databases like Epocrates, it’s becoming increasingly easy to ditch … Read More

In January, Google announced significant changes to its Glass project, essentially removing product development from the public gaze. You can no longer buy a pair of Google Glasses and the Glass Explorer program ended after nearly two years. This marked … Read More

Last week we explained disruptive innovation, the theory that describes how industries transform to provide increasingly affordable and effective products and services to consumers. What we didn’t say is that for fifteen years, the guy who came up with the … Read More

The White House recently released details on the Precision Medicine Initiative, a $215 million research effort that President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address. The initiative aims to generate the scientific evidence needed to move the concept … Read More