The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has named DJ Patil, PhD, as deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist.

The largest clinical laboratory in New Mexico is looking to play a larger role in population health management by introducing physician and patient portals to provide community-based longitudinal records that tie together lab data from across health systems.

As the economy recovers, healthcare spending is starting to increase at a higher rate, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Joint Commission announced today the appointment of David W. Baker, MD, FACP, MPH, to the position of executive vice president for the Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation. In this senior leadership position, Dr. Baker will oversee the Departments of Quality Measurement, Health Services Research and Standards and Survey Methods.

Ten hospitals in California were hit with administrative penalties totaling $700,000 due to medical errors.

Early medical image archiving was focused on one main goal: the display of images. No easy feat, especially as storage requirements grew and physicians began to expect images on-the-go through their tablets or phones, but the mission of sharing images remained clear.

States are cracking down on so-called physician dispensing of prescription drugs, or creating novel dosages of old drugs to get around cost controls on traditional ones, reports The New York Times.

The top 10 executives at Charlotte-based Carolinas HealthCare System were paid more than $22.2 million in 2014, an increase of 5.5 percent over the previous year, according to Charlotte Business Journal.