The pressure to deliver high-value care has led to massive growth in understanding the need for transparency, said Robert Wachter, MD, professor and interim chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, speaking at the Aug. 20 installment of the HIT Safety Webinar Series. 

Primary care physicians working in accountable care organizations (ACOs) received around half of their compensation from salary, according to an analysis of a physician practice survey administered in 2012 and 2013. Only 3.4 percent of their compensation was based on the quality of care they delivered.

Along with the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, Intel has launched Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a service designed to enable providers and researchers to securely share genomic, imaging and clinical data among patients.

Care Management Technologies (CMT), a data-driven population health analytics company that specializes in behavioral health, today announced its newest client, Alliance Behavioral Healthcare.

The global market for natural language processing is projected to reach $2.67 billion by 2020, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service is ramping up its Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative with the addition of hundreds of providers.

In response to its charge to provide a set of recommendations regarding clinical quality measurement (CQM) provisions in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services payment rules, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Quality Measurement Task Force focused on three areas.

Hospitals, retirement homes and makers of medical devices are among the healthcare organizations and businesses that may now consider calling Capital One, long known primarily as a credit-card company, when they want to borrow big bucks.