The Department of Health & Human Services has launched VizRisk, its first-ever behavioral health data visualization challenge.

Ascension, one of the largest not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system operators, plans to give up a large share of its ownership stake in Southern Arizona’s Carondelet Health Network to the for-profit publically-traded Tenet Healthcare and the not-for-profit Dignity Health under a joint venture operating agreement that will create a larger regional network of care.

LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2014--Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, has announced the general availability of Knowledge Analyzer™, a scalable solution that helps organizations quickly realize the full value of electronic health record (EHR) systems.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, is launching an accreditation program tailored to accountable care organizations and related IT service organizations.

The National Institutes of Health has developed the National Drug Early Warning System so health experts can quickly respond to potential outbreaks of illegal drugs, like heroin, and identify increased use of designer synthetic compounds.

The Englewood, Colorado-based mega hospital and healthcare non-profit network Catholic Health Initiatives is continuing to expand vertically as well as horizontally with its latest move to create a wholly-owned subsidiary called Prominence Health that will oversee its commercial and Medicare Advantage health-insurance plans, networks of care and related products.

A pair of studies came out this week that hinted at the untapped value of EHR data.

The largest U.S. for-profit and publically traded hospital operator, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), based in Nashville, Tennessee, is having such a good year so far, that it updated its second quarter and full year guidance for investors to reflect expectations of even higher earnings than it had initially anticipated for 2014.