Category: eHealth

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given 510(k) clearance to Verizon's Converged Health Management, a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device, marking the first time the… read more Source: FDA approves Verizon remote health monitoring solution

News of Farzad Mostashari's decision to resign as head of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology has created concern among some mHealth advocates who… read more Source: Mostashari resignation from ONC comes at bad time

New technology developed by researchers collaborating from several universities can detect malware on medical devices by noting their power usage, as outlined in research that will be presented at the USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies in Washington, D.C., next week. read more Source: New technology spots malware through power consumption

Clinical decision support surveillance tools have a moderate to significant impact on clinical outcomes for a majority of providers surveyed by Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS. read more Source: KLAS: Decision support surveillance tools 'significantly' impact clinical outcomes

Merge Healthcare, the Chicago-based provider of clinical systems, has announced that its CEO, Jeffery Surges, has resigned following a disappointing financial performance in its second quarter. Merge Healthcare, the Chicago-based provider of clinical systems, has announced that its CEO, Jeffery Surges, has resigned following a disappointing financial performance in its second quarter. Merge reported that…

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has issued guidance to help the healthcare industry better understand where to focus transaction testing to ensure that ICD-10 codes are correctly placed and formatted within the transactions. read more Source: WEDI guidance directs focus for ICD-10 testing

The U.S. and Canada lead in the global healthcare IT outsourcing market, with North America accounting for the largest share at 72 percent, according to a new report from RnRMarketResearch. The global market is expected to reach $50.4 billion by 2018. read more Source: Global health IT outsourcing market to reach $50.4 billion by 2018

The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act workgroup–tasked with developing a report that contains a proposed strategy and recommendations on a regulatory framework for health IT–submitted draft recommendations for that strategy at a Health IT Policy Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. read more Source: Workgroup: Don't subject health IT to FDA pre-market…

Big data is “going viral” at Ochsner Health System, CIO Chris Belmont told FierceHealthIT in an exclusive interview this week about Ochsner's latest big data projects and his predictions for how hospitals will use data in the future. read more …read more Source: 5 ways Ochsner Health Sytem harnesses big data