University of California San Francisco and Cisco have formed an initiative to jointly develop an interoperability platform for sharing healthcare information among multiple entities. 

“The hospital of the future will not stand by itself if we have a burned out workforce. Each of you has to care about the people with whom you work.”

A $5 million award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and collaboration between researcher-clinicians with the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine will be used to launch a five-year, multi-site Precision Monitoring (PRIS-M) program.

Virtual health tools could save nearly $10 billion each year, according to a report from Accenture.

iSpecimen, a trusted source of customized human biospecimen collections, and the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), the nation's first operational statewide health information exchange (HIE), today announced a novel collaboration to support medical research.

Another accountable care organization has dropped out of the CMS Innovation Center's Pioneer ACO initiative. 

Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS, has been named director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. 

 Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading mobile healthcare communications company, today announced that its industry leading communication platform, in use at over 1,000 healthcare facilities, has earned two new certifications for security and privacy.