A day after Senate Democrats boycotted a confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s nominee for HHS Secretary, the Senate Finance Committee move the nomination to the full Senate anyway by suspending the typical committee procedures. 

HHS has appointed Christopher Wlaschin, a retired Navy commander, as its new chief information security officer.

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that Nebraska Medicine will integrate POC Advisor™ into clinical workflows to improve sepsis outcomes. POC Advisor uses real-time clinical surveillance and analytics to deliver highly accurate sepsis alerts and patient-specific treatment advice to clinicians at the point of care.

Solution Enables Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers to Achieve Higher Ratings

The Senate finance committee scheduled a hearing for Tuesday morning to vote on the confirmation of Tom Price, MD, as the next HHS Secretary. Democrats, however, did not show up.

Enterprise imaging is one of the hottest topics in all of medicine, and healthcare and health IT leaders around the country are working hard to develop and carry out a successful enterprise imaging strategy. Bill Lacy, vice president of medical informatics at FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc., talked to Health Exec about how Fujifilm is helping providers better understand the ins and outs of enterprise imaging. 

For many people, “bootcamp” may make one think of an intense workout. But for eight health-tech startups, the phrase means an opportunity to grow. Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California has selected eight health-tech startups, out of 650, to join its three-month bootcamp to develop innovations and products to improve patient care.

Thomas Malone, MD, president and CEO of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, has resigned from his position weeks after 240 Summa physicians called for his departure with a vote of no confidence.