The same people who design theme park attractions at Walt Disney World and Disneyland will now be working on children’s hospitals as part as a $100 million, five-year project that will begin with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

Healthcare consumers appear quite comfortable with digital-based health tools, including those with artificial intelligence capabilities, according to a survey released by Accenture at the HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas.

Royal Philips has announced that Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider, has improved clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction by utilizing its IT strategy, the Philips Virtual Hospital Service with eICU technology and a Telestroke program.

Millions of opioids have been taken by millions of patients dealing with back pain or osteoarthritis in hips and knees. But how effective are these prescriptions? Turns out, not all that great in long-term outcomes compared to nonopioid medications, according to research in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Thousands of professionals are touching down in Las Vegas for the 2018 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. To help prep visitors, Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications for Great Lakes Health Connect, discusses three trends in interoperability on the HIMSS website. 

Susan Snedaker, MBA, director of infrastructure and operations and information security officer at Tucson Medical Center in Arizona, will be given the HIMSS Book of the Year award at the organization’s yearly show running this week in Las Vegas.

Fall detection devices, like wearables or pendants, might not be as effective as advertised, according to research that was recently published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions and Wellpepper, Inc. announced today that Mayo Clinic will be providing best practices for interactive care plans on the Wellpepper platform. Wellpepper is a clinically-validated patient engagement platform used by major health systems to improve outcomes and lower costs of care.