The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and the COMCARE Emergency Response Alliance outlined their shared vision for next generation emergency communications in a letter addressed to Denis ...

Data is a key resource – if not the resource – that powers modern business. Yet, unless it is in a homogenized package, its benefits are limited, thus limiting what industries – especially the ...

West Coast Informatics announces major TermHub enhancements and launches Open TermHub, simplifying deployment and ...

Product standardization is a key method hospitals and health systems can use to improve efficiencies and cut supply chain costs. However, it must be approached strategically. One way healthcare ...

When I took my first computer science courses in college, my professor often cited the old adage “Garbage in, Garbage out”. Most of the students in the classroom chuckled. For most of us, that was the ...

Getting a number of vendors to talk to each other, let alone align, is no easy feat. Adding academics and researchers does not necessarily make things easier. Now try adding to the mix a fragmented ...

As everyone involved in the retirement market space well knows, the Department of Labor’s April 6, 2016 fiduciary ruling threw the industry into some turmoil. The legislation requires anyone providing ...

Recently, I interviewed the CIO of a large Midwestern healthcare system about its plans to become an accountable care organization. The healthcare system was installing a well-known electronic health ...

Data is the lifeblood of the modern economy. Thousands of data points generated by each person are helping many industries deliver better products and services—online retailers suggesting and shipping ...