"healthcare IT" news, interviews, and features

News about healthcare IT

• IBM aims Watson's cognitive computer power at CVS customers

  The partnership will have the super computer compiling customer data in order to detect the potential onset of chronic illness early on.

• Insurance company now offers discounts -- if you let it track your Fitbit

• IBM launches Watson Health global analytics cloud

• Sometimes it's ethical for the doctor to Google you

  Doctors need guidelines about when it's appropriate for them to use search engines to discover information about their patients.

• At UCSF Medical Center, robot-aided healthcare is here

  When the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay hospital opened on Sunday, it boasted the largest fleet of hospital robots in the world.

• Software can now identify DNA from viruses and speed up diagnoses

  Los Alamos National Laboratory has released an updated version of bioinformatics software that can help select targets for cancer treatment.

Features about healthcare IT

• The firm behind Healthcare.gov had top-notch credentials -- and it didn't help

  The biggest software failure of 2013 and why CMMI certification was no predictor of success

• The first 3D printed organ -- a liver -- is expected in 2014

  Printed tissue could vastly improve drug testing

• Physicians may be marginalized as mobile tech engages us in healthcare

  Mobile to usher in era of patient engagement, health conference told