When it comes to messaging, hospital executives want to make sure it's done securely.

A new report by research firm KLAS, identifies some of the key vendors in this rapidly emerging space and explains why they've garnered market share in an area where there are more than 100 competitors.

Outdated communication technologies such as paging, fax, email, and phone calls delay the delivery of patient care, impact provider productivity, and reduce patient satisfaction. To solve these problems, Saint Mary’s Hospital in CT took a strategic approach to enable better communication, ease clinical workflows, and improve patient care.

Deloitte, a professional services firm with U.S. headquarters in New York City, on Friday announced the fastest-growing companies that made it on the North America Technology Fast 500 list.

Proper patient identity management is increasingly ranked as one of the top priorities for mitigating healthcare risk, as inaccurate patient identification compromises the integrity of patient information, creating massive patient safety and financial risks for healthcare providers.

Do you know how many steps you’ve taken today? If so, you’re joining millions of Americans who are embracing mobile technology to improve their health. Healthcare providers aren’t among those millions, however, even though they desperately want to be.

In his New York Times op-ed, “How Doctors Helped Drive the Addiction Crisis, (Nov. 7, 2015),” Richard Friedman called for a sea-change within the medical profession to combat the growing addiction crisis in our country, calling for improved training and education for physicians.

"We must provide clinicians with data and tools to help them make sound decisions when prescribing controlled substances. "

How healthcare practitioners access and share health information minute by minute as they’re helping patients is still broken. Simple tasks like logging into get patient health records are inefficient and slow down the workflow. As more health data goes digital, the issue of health data security grows.