Former Alphabet Executive Chairman and Google CEO Eric Schmidt had some frank advice for the healthcare industry in his opening keynote address Monday at the HIMSS 2018 conference in Las Vegas. “Get to the cloud. Run to the cloud,” he told attendees. “Don’t stop, don’t walk, don’t think about it – just run. Take an […]

CNBC has learned that a secretive team within Apple’s growing health unit has been in talks with developers, hospitals and other industry groups about bringing clinical data, such as detailed lab results and allergy lists, to the iPhone, according to a half-dozen people familiar with the team. And from there, users could choose to share […]

With IT staff shortages a reality for CIOs in most industries, healthcare – driven by federally mandated incentives for such IT-intensive projects as Electronic Health Records – is experiencing even more of an IT labor crunch. Is poaching experienced IT talent from other industries the answer? Source….