Pantheon has entered into a five-year, $11.6 million contract with the federal government to redesign and expand a website building tool offered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Many hospitals are making strides toward safer environments for their patients, but errors and infections persist as top safety concerns, according to an update to the Hospital Safety Score published by the Leapfrog Group.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems has partnered with Aviacode, a Salt Lake City developer of technology-enabled medical coding services, to provide cloud-delivered medical coding services to NextGen's clients.

FICO, a Minneapolis-based developer of analytics and decision management technology, has acquired CR Software, a developer of enterprise collections and recovery technologies for credit issuers, government organizations, collection agencies, retailers and healthcare providers.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken advantage of its resources to launch the Million Veterans Program, a “mega-database” that will hold genomic and clinical information for future studies about veterans who receive their care from the VA and who volunteer to participate in the program.

State prescription drug monitoring programs can help reduce prescription drug abuse but there is room for improvement, according to a report prepared by MITRE for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

KBCore, which developed and submitted for consideration a suite of unified web and mobile apps to collect and analyze event reports, was announced the winner of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Patient Safety Reporting System Challenge.

McKesson and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) have entered an agreement to combine the McKesson Episode Management software with HCI3’s Prometheus Payment model.