Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, Johns Hopkins University's commercialization arm, plans to launch a health-focused accelerator, reports The Baltimore Sun. 

BOSTON—“Blockchain is going to be the most disruptive technology in this space aside from data analytics,” predicted John Mattison, MD, chief medical information officer and assistant medical director for Kaiser Permanente, speaking at Bio-IT World Congress.

(San Jose, CA)—April 11, 2016—Zoeticx, Inc. has been named as one of the highest ranked middleware Electronic Health Record (EHR) integrators in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by Black Book Research in the first quarter of 2016. The survey, in association with its annual interoperability survey  of 2,012 provider Health Information Exchange (HIE) users and 2,300 payer HIE users, along with 4,100 prospective HIE users, finds that payers are accelerating private HIE executions while providers are evaluating HIE replacements, middleware and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources(FHIR) options.

A variety of stakeholders are doing everything they can to address the growing opioid crisis. The latest is a website from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT that lists the available health IT resources.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has passed the last of 19 bipartisan pieces of legislation that will become the Senate companion to the 21st Century Cures Act–passed last year by the House of Representatives in a vote of 344-77.

BOSTON—The time is right for more and more people to have their genome sequenced, said Yaron Turpaz, PhD, MBA, CIO of Human Longevity, speaking at Bio-IT World on April 7. 

A shocking 39 percent of potentially harmful drug orders weren’t flagged by a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system designed to do just that, according to the latest report from The Leapfrog Group.

BOSTON—An interdisciplinary team was key to the successful implementation of interactive visualization within the EMR at The Ohio State University, said Randi Foraker, PhD, of the university’s College of Public Health, speaking at the Bio-IT World Congress on April 7.