CHICAGO--Andrew Gettinger, MD, joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT as CMIO and acting director of the agency’s Office of Clinical Quality and Safety last October, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise.

Partners HealthCare has entered into a new partnership with Samsung Electronics to develop the next generation of personalized digital and mobile solutions for health and wellness.  

CHICAGO—Humana President and CEO Bruce D. Broussard opened day 2 of the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition by issuing a challenge to his audience to change the conversation. 

Carrollton, Georgia — April 9, 2015 — To enable its provider customers to better engage with patients while meeting the higher threshold for meaningful use Stage 2, Greenway Health™ has announced the general availability of Greenway Patient™, an all-new, intuitive and mobile-friendly cloud service for users of Greenway’s electronic health record platforms. 

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 14, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerner Corp., Geisinger Health System and xG Health Solutions have collaborated to enable the use of emerging SMART(R) on FHIR(R) industry standards to facilitate use of software applications across compliant "open platform" electronic health record (EHR) systems, such as Cerner Millennium(R). 

Enterprise population health vendor Caradigm is partnering with health engagement management provider Eliza to drive behavior change. 

Surescripts, the nation’s largest health information network, will implement its National Record Locator Service with EHR vendors eClinicalWorks, Epic, and Greenway Health, enabling more than 480,000 providers to use the new service to locate and exchange patient health records.

Patient network PatientsLikeMe and global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have announced a five-year partnership focused on research initiatives.