Pharmaceutical manufacturers are looking to partner with technology companies to use analytics to prove the value of their drugs and possibly find lucrative new uses for their existing products, according to Reuters.

Several years after being launched, the Healthcare Administrative Technology Association (HATA) feels it has made progress on priorities like electronic funds transfer (EFT) and electronic remittance advice (ERA), with more work to be done on addressing prior authorization headaches through the practice management systems (PMS) industry it represents.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is attracting plenty of interest from health IT professionals, but worries about security may slow the transition from systems simply being interested in its applications to actually implementing it, according to a survey conducted by IT services provider TEKSystems.

After switching over to a Cerner electronic health record (EHR), Western Missouri Medical Center (WMMC) alleges 99 percent of its claims were being rejected, according to a report in Daily Star Journal.

Medical malpractice suits are often the result not of poor care, but poor communication, in the experience of attorney and healthcare consultant Heather Hansen. So when health IT tools start getting in the way of communication between clinicians and patients, health systems may be unnecessarily exposing themselves to lawsuits.

After its $100 million acquisition by Allscripts, Practice Fusion has been telling physicians its free software business model will be coming to an end this summer, according to CNBC.

Despite all the rage among startups, Silicon Valley and health IT professionals about how artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize healthcare, the technology just isn’t there yet, according to a report in VentureBeat.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced it will pay $1.9 billion to acquire Flatiron Health, a startup founded by two former Google employees focusing on oncology-based electronic health record (EHR) software.