The Department of Veterans Affairs is funding four new studies that will tap into the national, voluntary research Million Veteran Program (MVP) which has enrolled more than 390,000 veterans to date.

The Global Center for Health Innovation is holding the Cleveland Medical Hackathon in September. 

Emdeon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Altegra Health, a national provider of technology and intervention platforms, for $910 million. 

The July 3 merger announcement by Aetna and Humana, two of the country’s five largest health insurers, unsurprisingly drew blanket coverage across the media over the holiday weekend. Three questions have so far dominated the discussion: Will the $37 billion deal survive antitrust review? Will Anthem and Cigna’s rekindled talks produce the same result? And what will all this mean for healthcare consumers? 

Full-year 2014 financial data is now available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website to help consumers better understand financial relationships between physicians and drug and medical device companies. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a contract to Data Computer Corporation of America (DCCA), a veteran-owned information technology services company, to provide support to the National Level Repository (NLR), which serves as the central system in the Meaningful Use program.

The National Library of Medicine could become the epicenter for biomedical data science and dramatically expand its activities beyond that of its parent organization, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to an advisory committee report to the NIH director.

Press Ganey has introduced the transparency Seal of Integrity, which will be used to assure providers, physicians and patients that patient experience data are scientifically rigorous and objectively presented using a standardized rating system.