CHICAGO, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Geneia, a company of experienced healthcare change agents creating analytic and technology solutions to improve healthcare, today announced that Hashim Zaidi, MD was chosen the grand prize winner in the Geneia Joy of Medicine Challenge. 

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- There are more than 200,000 deaths per year in the United States due to preventable patient care errors, making it the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. The Joint Commission attributes 80% of these errors as associated with miscommunication during patient hand-off.  

BOSTON—Geisinger Health System has a $6 billion research and development shop that is a microcosm of the entire healthcare space, said the organization’s chief clinical informatics officer Alistair Erskine, MD, speaking at AMIA’s iHealth 2015 Conference.

A new partnership will allow all users of eClinicalWorks software to have access to Surescripts' electronic prior authorization service. 

June 8, 2015; San Jose, Calif and Yokohama, Japan -- Zoeticx, Inc., the developer of medical software that bridges the gap between medical data and quality patient care, today announced its entry into the rapidly growing 150 billion Asia-Pacific healthcare markets, a dynamic medical landscape with an accelerated evolution driven by innovation and opportunities expected through 2020.

RICHMOND, VA (June 8, 2015) –Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc. (HDL, Inc.) has updated its myHDL Physician App to support use with Apple Watch. The iOS app, which was released for iPhone and iPad in March 2015, now allows the company’s provider partners to view and manage patient cases from their wrist, on all models of Apple Watch. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule updating the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) that enhances the focus on primary care services and provides additional flexibility in the program to encourage increased participation. 

The majority of nurses (93 percent) own smartphones and of these, 88 percent use their smartphone apps on the job, according to data from market intelligence provider InCrowd.