Researchers are suggesting that giving Americans a sense of purpose can help reduce U.S. healthcare costs, according to Los Angeles Times.

Meaningful Use has received the bulk of the health IT headlines in recent weeks thanks to the hardship exception, concerns about low Stage 2 attestation rates, calls for greater interoperability and fears about Stage 3 requirements.

Dignity Health, a Northern California hospital chain, agreed to pay $37 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the federal Medicare program, reports San Jose Mercury News. 

Data are being generated at an astounding rate, with an estimated 50,000-fold increase by 2020 that will result in 25,000 terabytes of data, said Visha Agrawal, MD, president of Harris Healthcare Solutions, during a panel discussion at Cleveland Clinic’s 2014 Medical Innovation Summit.

Physicians are limiting how many new ACA-insured patients they are taking as exchange plans often have lower reimbursement rates, reports USA Today.  

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Truven Health Analytics™ today announced an agreement with Cerner Corporation, a leading provider of health information and electronic health record (EHR) systems, to resell its Micromedex® CareNotes® product, a part of the Patient Connect Suite of patient and consumer education and engagement solutions.

Most physician group practices are actively engaged in internal processes to improve clinical quality but they are highly critical of Medicare's physician quality reporting programs and their impact on patients and practices.

The National Institutes of Health's Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) has launched a patient portal called GenomeConnect.