BOSTON--Bill Evans’ own healthcare experience only served to strengthen his work on IBM Watson Health and its potential benefits to all patients. 

BOSTON—The FDA is working on building community openness through initiatives that aim to drive innovation, explained Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, the agency’s first chief health informatics officer as well as director of its Office of Health Informatics, speaking at Bio-IT World Congress.

As analysts and investors had expected, Pfizer and Allergan have terminated their record $160 billion merger by mutual agreement just days after the Obama administration introduced new rules meant to limit the ability of American companies to shift their home overseas simply to lower their tax bills, wrote the New York Times.

Most Americans don’t believe that the price of healthcare services ties to the quality of the care they receive, according to research published in Health Affairs.

Three researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have put their heads together to produce and propose a detailed system for offering mortgage-like healthcare loans to hard-hit patients.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced two projects that focus on supporting and scaling quality improvement organizations.

David Knutson, MS, has been named director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets.

The Sync for Science pilot, announced during the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative Summit, has begun.