February 1, 2013
MD Anderson, the Houston-based cancer center, has announced its going to start up an organization-wide analytics initiative, aimed at creating new types of personalized cancer treatments. The cancer center said it will use the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle to lay the foundation for this analytics initiative, which will aim to bring together clinical, genomic, financial, administrative and operational information from internal and external sources.
January 31, 2013
New York-based Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have partnered to create the Institute for Precision Medicine, a new medicine research hub that will offer targeted, individualized treatment based on each patient's genetic profile.
January 31, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, which will include more than 500 participating organizations. The initiative, linked to the Affordable Care Act, will have these organizations test how bundling payments for episodes of care can result in more coordinated care for beneficiaries and lower costs for Medicare.
January 31, 2013
Recently, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced they are teaming up to improve data collection in electronic health records (EHRs) through a set of standardized data elements and definitions for the clinical management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and coronary artery disease (CAD).
January 30, 2013
EHealth Insider (EHI), a U.K. independent health IT news, research, and events firm, has announced that it has formed a partnership with Orem, Ut.-based research firm KLAS Enterprises.
January 30, 2013
The operator of Cbr Systems, Inc., a cord blood bank based in San Bruno, Calif., agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it failed to protect the security of customers’ personal information, and that its inadequate security practices contributed to a breach that exposed Social Security numbers and credit and debit card numbers of nearly 300,000 consumers.
January 29, 2013
According to a report from the Austin, Texas-based Mercom Capital Group, a communications and consulting firm, healthcare IT venture capital (VC) funding totaled nearly $1.2 billion in 163 deals in 2012, compared to $480 million in 49 deals in 2011 and $211 million in 22 deals in 2010.
January 29, 2013
Alerts and reporting are two of the most challenging aspects of medical oncology, in addition to being the tools providers are least happy with overall, according to according to a new report from Orem, Ut.-based KLAS Research.
January 29, 2013
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), expressing concern that hospitals will not be able to put forth complete, accurate quality data via their EHRs. The comments were in response to a request for information (RFI) on hospital and vendor readiness for the submission of electronic quality data, as part of the CMS’ Inpatient Quality Data Reporting (IQR) program.
January 28, 2013
McKesson, the San Francisco-based health IT giant, has announced that MED3OOO and Pioneer Medical Group have signed a definitive agreement to jointly own and operate a new advanced management services joint venture.
January 28, 2013
Approximately seven in 10 U.S. adults track a health indicator for themselves or for a loved one, although most are just keeping track in the heads, according to new research published by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
January 25, 2013
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced new programming and educational offerings that will be part of the 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS13) in New Orleans from March 3-7.
January 25, 2013
Heritage Provider Network, a Northridge, Calif.-based integrated physicians group, is teaming with University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Open mHealth, a non-profit startup aimed at creating open software architecture for mobile health (mHealth) applications, for a contest that will encourage teams to create mHealth applications. The apps will have to use Open’s mHealth architecture and will be judged by a panel of health IT leaders which include Aneesh Chopra, former Chief Technology Officer of the United States.
January 25, 2013
The agency charged with boosting health information exchange in California has announced two new grant programs targeting rural HIEs and innovations in data analytics. A notice sent out Jan. 25 by the California Health eQuality (CHeQ) program managed by the University of California-Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI) says the Rural HIE Incentive Program seeks to establish an ongoing mechanism and structure through which rural medical communities may evaluate and contract with pre-selected HIE service providers.
January 24, 2013
A majority of Americans put the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges at the top of the priority list for health policy in their state this year, according to a survey released on Jan. 24 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.
