The University of Washington's Foster School's Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship held its first Health Innovation Challenge and announced the top three winners.

To help clinicians better manage patient care, Garmin will join with Allscripts to integrate its vívofit suite of wearable devices into the FollowMyHealth and CareInMotion platforms, designed to address specific population health management priorities.

In an effort to improve patient safety, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced that 49 healthcare technology companies have signed its Open Data Pledge.

This year’s Health Datapalooza includes a code-a-thon using non-governmental de-identified administrative claims data and electronic record clinical data to establish algorithms to predict clinical response to rheumatoid arthritis management.

Another HIMSS Conference & Exhibition has come and gone, and true to expectations, interoperability, connected health and consumerization were the most prevalent buzz words this year.

On the whole, U.S. healthcare has made significant strides toward beating back healthcare-associated infections. However, omit the unfortunately common yet usually treatable C. difficile from the equation, and a lot of the remaining HAIs are caused by hard-to-kill, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

"Innovate or die" was the rallying cry at HIMSS16, according to John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Several vendors are tapping into the access home care workers have with patients, especially those with strong potential for expensive care needs.