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.

Healthgrades has named 466 U.S. hospitals recipients of its Patient Safety Excellence and Outstanding Patient Experience awards.  

Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center (BIC) has set its sights on digital health, launching a telemedicine pilot and announcing plans to seek investments and acquisitions. 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is holding the Mood Challenge for ResearchKit, calling upon researchers and technologists to submit proposals for ResearchKit studies that will further understanding of mood and how it relates to daily life.