Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia, will be appointed to run HHS by President-elect Donald Trump, giving the administration’s top healthcare post to a staunch proponent of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

New York-based Medidata, a cloud-based solutions provider, has launched a new program that will allow easy integration of healthcare data from electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs) and clinical trial electronic source data into one single platform, the Medidata Clinical Cloud.

iSpecimen, a database of human bio specimen, and Great Lakes Health Connect (GLHC), the leading health information exchange (HIE) in Michigan, have teamed to improve the data network of biospecimens available for research purposes.

Grand River Hospital (GRH) announced Nov. 8 that it will Wellsoft’s emergency department information system (EDIS) for a 567-bed hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) in September. Now, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has written a letter focusing on three main topics to improve the plan.

The FDA had held regulatory meetings with multiple hospitals that have had differences from the Medical Device Reporting Regulation (21 CFR Part 803) and not given responses. 

Getting a new device brings everyone excitement; how will my life change using this, will others notice it, and what can this device do for me, are all questions people ask when unboxing their new technology. In an age filled with an endless stream of new products, are we actually taking advantage of the devices around us?

Researchers have found that infections from Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions such as colitis, can pass from patient to patient after sharing the same hospital bed.