Mayo Clinic and Mytonomy, a provider of cloud-based patient education and information services, announced a collaboration to develop short videos addressing questions concerning breast cancer treatment.

Patients in the United States pay about $5,000 per person on healthcare but are not healthier than people in other countries. In article by The Economist, authors examined exactly where the money goes, and which firms profit the most.

Wolters Kluwer Health acquired Firecracker, an adaptive learning and study-planning application used by 20 percent of medical students, following a March 5 announcement of a signed agreement.

Limiting medical residents to 16-hour work shifts, instead of allowing for longer stretches, increased satisfaction with training but did not affect overall educational outcomes. Findings were published March 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In a March 7 session presented at HIMSS18 in Orlando, Shari Erickson, MPH, vice president of government affairs and medical practice at the American College of Physicians (ACP), discussed how healthcare organizations can reduce administrative tasks to reduce physician burnout.

A report presented March 5 at HIMSS found 59 percent of American consumers want a healthcare digital customer experience to be more like online retailers.

In a recent article from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), experts discussed three possible methods to reduce the increasing amounts of audits received by providers and health information management professionals.

The future of the medical products and device industry is brightening, according to Moody’s investors Service, which upgraded its outlook from stable to positive. Moody’s predicts “continued product innovation” and synergies from acquisitions will drive growth of earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of between 4 and 5 percent over the next 12 to 18 months.