The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has completed what Administrator Marilyn Tavenner called a “successful” first week of end-to-end ICD claims testing. 

The Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care has announced its inaugural class of InciteHealth fellows who will work with patients to create and execute ideas that will transform healthcare.

A new electronic guide from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT aims to help prescribers maximize the benefits of electronic prescribing.

Startup CliniCloud is now taking pre-orders for wireless stethoscopes and thermometers that take readings at home and connect to smartphones to send readings to physicians.

Former acting national health IT coordinator Jacob Reider, MD, has been hired as chief strategy officer of Kyron, a Silicon Valley personalized medicine startup company. 

HealthStream, a provider of workforce development and research/patient experience solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire San Diego-based HealthLine Systems.

A new community-supported angel network has sprung up in Atlanta with the goal of connecting early-stage biomedical, medtech and healthcare-related companies with angel investors interested in advancing technologies.

Hospitals will invest more in administrative IT systems, health information management and revenue cycle analytics than in EHRs over the next few years, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan.