HIMSS has awarded Community Health Centers of Winter Garden, Fla., its 2014 Community Health Organization Davies Award of Excellence.

Partners HealthCare and EMC are collaborating to develop what they call The Partners Data Lake, a data and analytics platform to drive clinical research, improve care delivery and reduce costs. 

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT  released a paper that describes its "vision for advancing the use of health IT to support transformational improvement in healthcare quality and value," according to a post on the Health IT Buzz blog.

As federal and state insurance exchanges enter their second year, from 60 percent to more than 80 percent of plans could be high deductible, reports Modern Healthcare.

Scottsdale, AZ – November 6, 2014 – Orion Health, a population health management company, today announced the opening of its new development center in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Orion Health ‘Center of Excellence’ will serve as the company’s North American research and solution center, supporting big data analytics technology development, focused on providing decision support to clinicians and patients, and solution support for clients’ population health initiatives.

A Wisconsin woman is fighting off bankruptcy after spending 10 days in the hospital in a medical induced coma. The patient, taken by ambulance to a hospital outside of her covered network, could not alert the driver because she was incapacitated and clinically dead, according to United Press International.

By applying simple algorithms to EMR data, researchers can identify cases of undiagnosed diabetes, according to a study published in CMAJ Open.

Thousands of nurses at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California plan to walk off the job amid heated contract negotiations, according to Napa Valley Register.